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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...

pregnant woman's belly
By Carter Sherman, Vice | 03.09.2021

As a health care worker, Jordan McCutcheon could get the COVID-19 vaccine anytime she wants. But the 28-year-old dental...

mother and baby
By Andre M. Perry, The Nation | 03.09.2021

Photo by Larry Crayton on Unsplash

“Push, push, push, Mama; push,” my wife, Joia Crear-Perry, implored. Quiana, angled upright on...

The face of a Chinese woman
By Phoebe Zhang, South China Morning Post | 03.08.2021

Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash

China’s annual parliamentary meetings, the Two Sessions, are under way in Beijing and...

Book covers
By Jackie Leach Scully, Nature | 03.08.2021

CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans Henry T. Greely, MIT Press (2021)

The Code Breaker: Jennifer...

By Phoebe Weston, The Guardian | 03.08.2021

The world’s most expensive drug, which treats babies and young children with a rare and often fatal degenerative disorder, will...

CRISPR
By Jennifer Doudna, Wired | 03.08.2021

Since my colleagues and I first described CRISPR as a genome-engineering tool in 2012, the technique has transformed fundamental research...

By Damien Cave, New York Times | 03.08.2021

SYDNEY, Australia — The tabloids in Australia called Kathleen Folbigg a murderer of innocent babies — the nation’s “worst female...

Jennifer Doudna
By David Pogue, CBS News | 03.07.2021

When Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, there was no black-tie ceremony in Sweden. Because...