surrogate

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Initially resigned to the assessment they had been given, the couple joined Surrogacy UK in the hope of finding a surrogate who would be willing to use their own eggs.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“If you’re investing in small data sets and relying on surrogate endpoints, the risk has simply become too high,” says Simos Simeonidis, managing partner and co-founder of Kos Biotechnology Partners, an investment fund.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

So being a single father by choice is a rarer phenomenon, and doing so via gestational surrogacy, in which the surrogate mother bears no genetic link to the child she carries, is rarer yet.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

But the joy that little monkey feels for his orangutan, which he uses as shield, surrogate and playmate, is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

He reaches for the crowbar, but, as a surrogate big brother, I hold it out of reach, indicating that’s enough.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman