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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...

Women operating machinery at a fertility clinic
By Amy Goldstein , Washington Post | 03.11.2018

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic experienced a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank holding thousands of frozen eggs...

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By Joyce Bichler, Breast Cancer Action | 03.07.2018

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time approved an at-home genetic testing kit without a doctor’s...

Bright yellow fluorescent fish in water
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.07.2018

Britons are broadly in favour of rewriting the genetic code of human embryos to prevent children from inheriting devastating diseases...

A grainy, grayscale image showing the process of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). A slender needle tip touching the edge of an egg, held by pipette.
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 03.06.2018

Women are unfairly paying the price for men's falling fertility,  scientists have warned.

Mens sperm counts have reduced by...

7 bright yellow images of "x-shaped" chromosomes
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.06.2018

On Tuesday, 23andMe announced it will start telling customers of its mail-in DNA-testing kit about three mutations in the breast-cancer...

Dog
By Jessica Pierce, New York Times | 03.06.2018

Why, people want to know, did Barbra Streisand decide to clone Samantha, her coton de tulear? What would compel someone...

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By Joel Michael Reynolds, Aeon Ideas | 03.05.2018

When I was three years old, I was told that my brother Jason had a 95 per cent chance of...

DNA strand
By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 03.05.2018

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has...