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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...

Bird's eye view of a doctor holding an iPad that contains a DNA sequence. Another person stands pointing specifically to the sequence.
By Adam Roger, WIRED | 05.04.2017

Of all the provisions of the Affordable Care Act—“Obamacare,” if you’re on a first-name basis—the one that seemed...

A woman holds her stomach in pain as a doctor comforts her.
By Robert Winston, Daily Mail | 05.03.2017

This week I feel ashamed. This newspaper has published evidence of widespread bad practice in my own medical speciality, infertility...

A woman doctor leans over a woman patient's bed, engaged in a conversation The patient has a blood pressure maching attached to her arm.
By Paul Bentley and Sara Smyth, Daily Mail | 05.03.2017

Fertility clinics are today accused of exploiting desperate women by asking them to donate eggs for cash and free treatment...

Dark image displaying a bee's frontal body/
By Todd Kuiken, Slate | 05.03.2017

Is that something we’re comfortable with?

Sure, the U.S. military has deployed the power of biology and nature before. For...

A laboratory scientist uses a pipette to transfer liquid.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 05.03.2017

GlaxoSmithKline says it has treated a child with Strimvelis, its gene therapy for immune deficiency.

A child in Europe has...

Microscopic image of an egg being fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection
By Haroon Siddique, The Guardian | 05.02.2017

HFEA says it has contacted clinics accused of offering women on low incomes free IVF treatment if they donate eggs

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Close-up image of a DNA double helix, stained in yellow, horizontally placed against a black background.
By The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Japan News | 04.28.2017

The government plans to drastically revise its basic policy on conducting research on human embryos, in an effort to implement...

A woman is attentively drawn to the smart phone she holds in her hands.
By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 04.28.2017

Last week, Google announced its latest foray into health care – an ambitious project to collect vast amounts of health...