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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 Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.05.2019

George Church, the prominent Harvard University biologist, offered a full-throated apology for having meetings and phone calls with accused sex...

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By Anna Silman, The Cut | 08.01.2019

Yesterday, the New York Times published a story about alleged sex trafficker and cartoon villain Jeffrey Epstein’s plan to...

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By Jon Cohen, Science | 08.01.2019

On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of...

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By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times | 07.31.2019

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.30.2019

The world's largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 07.29.2019

For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a...

By Walter Isaacson, Air Mail | 07.27.2019

QUEBEC CITY

Biology is the new tech. I’m at a conference in Quebec City on CRISPR, the molecular tool designed...

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By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.26.2019

A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and...