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Technologies
A hotel in Kyiv is currently home to more than 100 stranded babies who were born to surrogates, and whose...
Doha (AFP) - Privacy concerns over Qatar's coronavirus contact tracing app, a tool that is mandatory on pain of prison,...
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A major change to U.S. regulation of biotech will exempt some gene-edited plants from...
The babies lie in cribs, sleeping, crying or smiling at nurses, swaddled in clean linens and apparently well cared for,...
Policies
Doha (AFP) - Privacy concerns over Qatar's coronavirus contact tracing app, a tool that is mandatory on pain of prison,...
here was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the...
Director Erika Cohn’s new film, Belly of the Beast, part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival which goes...
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Judith Butler has achieved a status that few other living academics have acquired: For each published...
Society
As cases related to the novel coronavirus continue to strain hospitals, doctors face difficult choices about rationing scarce medical resources...
As health care resources grow increasingly scarce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, states, hospitals, and individuals are forced to make tough...
Seeing Thomas Hunt Morgan’s experiments with fruit flies in episode one of The Gene: An Intimate History took me...
Perspectives
Ethel Freeman became famous in death, even though no one knew her name. For months, she was one of the...
In the summer of 2017, Julie Johnson saw a Facebook ad about egg donation. Somebody out there — an older...
Stephen Wald took a home DNA test in 2018, hoping to explore his family ancestry with his two young children....
Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of the past year, in chronological order....