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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 David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.07.2020

A report revealing China’s effort to collect DNA from millions of men to help solve crimes is raising concerns among...

By Bethany Brookshire, ScienceNews | 07.07.2020

Henrietta Lacks, from whom the “immortal” HeLa cell line was derived in 1951, without permission or compensation

Ethical concerns abound...

By Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 07.06.2020

Transhumanists are no strangers to controversy. How could they be when Jeffrey Epstein numbered himself among their longstanding adherents and...

Police in China
By Editorial Board, Washington Post | 07.06.2020

WHAT HAS been known until now about China’s persecution of the Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang province has focused...

DNA testing
By Peter Aldhous, Buzzfeed News | 07.05.2020

Yuliana Ramírez learned she was pregnant in December 2016, about a month after splitting up from her boyfriend, Luis Diego...

Mosquito
By Natasha Foote, EURACTIV.com | 07.03.2020

After over 78 environmental and agricultural organisations signed a letter this week calling for a moratorium on gene drive technology...

By Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, The BMJ Opinion Blog | 07.03.2020

As the covid-19 pandemic continues to progress across the world, the concept of vulnerability echoes throughout various social and political...

By Eli Cahan, Science | 07.02.2020

The former Watson School of Biological Sciences has changed its name.

For Earyn McGee, terminology matters.

McGee, a herpetologist, studies...