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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

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By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 04.25.2021

BOSTON — Thomas Feldborg and Daria Rokina set off nearly every afternoon to explore this city. They leave from their hotel...

scissors and DNA
By Amanda Winkler, Freethink | 04.24.2021

The gene-editing system, CRISPR-Cas9, is truly revolutionizing medicine: in the future, it may help us eradicate ailments from sickle cell...

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By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2021

At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known...

African girl getting vaccine
By Sarah Bosely, The Guardian | 04.23.2021

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A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in ...

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By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2021
sperm injection
By Robert Norman and Ben W. Moi, The Conversation | 04.22.2021

An expensive IVF technique, routinely offered in fertility clinics around the world, offers no extra benefits to standard IVF in...

By Eleanor J. Bader, The Progressive | 04.20.2021

When nurse Dawn Wooten blew the whistle on medical staff at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia last fall...

Police searching a database
By Rowan Moore Gerety, MIT Technology Review | 04.19.2021

At a conference in New Orleans in 2007, Jon Greiner, then the chief of police in Ogden, Utah, heard a...