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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 Alondra Nelson, Nature | 09.07.2020

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (or Don’t) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford, The...

coronavirus
By Deirdre Shesgreen, USA Today | 09.06.2020

COVID-19 test results come back within 24 hours – or even faster. Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists...

Human genome
By Josephine Johston, STAT | 09.04.2020

Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an international commission this week on...

By Zoon, Feminism In India | 09.04.2020

Earlier this year, shocking reports out of Madhya Pradesh highlighted the history of forced sterilisation in India. The state government...

Newborn child
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.03.2020

In a high-level report precipitated by the birth of CRISPR babies in China in 2018, scientists say the technology’s next...

DNA genotyping and sequencing
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 09.03.2020

FOR DECADES, SCIENTISTS have been tinkering with genes—cutting and pasting bits of DNA into organisms like plants, bacteria, and mice...

Policeman at traffic stop
By Kathleen Mcgrory and Neil Bedi, Tampa Bay Times | 09.03.2020

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that...

He Jiankui
By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News [cites CGS's Katie Hasson] | 09.03.2020

In 2018, Jiankui He (pictured) announced that he had edited genes in embryos to create two baby girls.

Gene editing...