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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...

Baby's hand in an adult's
By Peter McGuire, TheJournal.ie | 07.14.2020

SHORTLY AFTER THE marriage equality referendum passed in 2015, Ranae von Meding became pregnant with her first child.

“We used...

Frankie Cordoba in a wheelchair
By Chelsey Cox , USA Today | 07.14.2020

July marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Pride Month. But that's not why people...

A remote control
By Alexis Soloski, The New York Times | 07.13.2020

Ready for a thought experiment?

Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse. Crime is...

Selection in a lab
By Michael Le Page, NewScientist | 07.12.2020

The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help...

Genetic Information
By Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News | 07.10.2020

Canada's highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance...

By John Jackson, Fardels Bear | 07.08.2020

“In the fullness of time” Steve Hsu assures the listeners on a recent podcast (more about the podcast below) Michigan...

DNA in color
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 07.08.2020

A peculiar bacterial enzyme has allowed researchers to achieve what even the popular CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing system couldn’t manage: targeted changes...

Drawing of a gene edit
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.07.2020

CRISPR’S POTENTIAL FOR curing inherited disease has made headlines, including at WIRED, for years. ( Hereherehere...