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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...
While sperm has been successfully frozen for decades, it wasn’t until 1999, when flash-freezing procedures were introduced, that eggs could...
The January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington, DC was quite the eye-opener. I am not a naïve marcher, since...
The top organization in the US responsible for developing genetic testing guidelines is not on board with the US Food...
Doctors are losing their role as the gatekeeper of our health information, for better or worse.
Last week, the US...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has...
Meet the transhumanists who believe that the brain can outlive the body.
"Dead of the world, unite!” Appearing in a...
As with many new fields, synthetic biology—which incorporates disparate disciplines like engineering, computer science, biotechnology, and molecular biology—is hard to...
In 1883, the English statistician and social scientist Francis Galton coined the word “eugenics” (“well-born,” from Greek). The term referred...