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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...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 01.06.2021

Biologists tend not to discuss experimental results on a handful of cells and a single solitary mouse — too preliminary...

Singapore panorama
By Josh Taylor, The Guardian | 01.05.2021

Singapore has announced its police will be able to use data obtained by its coronavirus contact-tracing technology for criminal investigations...

running pig
By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 01.05.2021

Every day in the United States, 17 people die waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. To address this crisis, one...

Empty surgical bed
By Erin Brodwin, STAT | 01.04.2021

After a tumultuous three years marked by halting progress and high rates of employee turnover, Haven — the ambitious...

Shobita Parthasarathy
By Daniel Sarewitz, Public Books | 01.04.2021

To converse with Shobita Parthasarathy is to be enveloped in two kinds of warmth: that of a generous-spirited, energetic, and...

Down syndrome ultrasound
By Richard Gunderman, Psychology Today | 01.03.2021

A recently released study finds that Europe has reduced the number of babies born with Down syndrome by 54%. In...

Facial recognition
By Catherine Stinson, American Scientist | 01.01.2021

“Phrenology” has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting and...

By Eric T. Jeungst, AMA Journal of Ethics | 01.01.2021

Abstract

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing...