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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 Eben Kirksey, Financial Review | 12.11.2020

Simply Google “BGI NIFTY” and you will find a slick website from China’s premier genomics company offering new...

DNA
By Luke Shors, Neo.Life | 12.10.2020

Fifty years before we solved it, long before its information began filling scientific headlines and pharmaceutical shelves, and even before...

By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 12.09.2020

A gene therapy for a rare form of blindness seems to work well – but the genes injected into one...

African-American man
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 12.09.2020

When Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe began to research coronavirus infections among Black and Hispanic patients, he thought he knew what he...

Jennifer Doudna
By John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | 12.07.2020

Just weeks after I interviewed her this September, UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier were jointly...

Chinese army training
By Emily Mullin, Future Human | 12.07.2020

China has reportedly conducted tests on members of its armed forces in hopes of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,”...

Sickle cells
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 12.05.2020

It is a double milestone: new evidence that cures are possible for many people born with sickle cell disease and...

Timnit Gebru
By Karen Hao , MIT Technology Review | 12.04.2020

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On the evening of Wednesday, December 2, Timnit Gebru, the co-lead...