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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...

Forensic scientist, clothed in protective gear, goggles, and gloves, holds a vile at eye level and looks fixated at the object.
By Nature | 03.27.2017

Behind closed doors this week, the German federal justice ministry has been discussing whether to hand police a powerful new...

Landscape photo of a corn field, with blue sky in the background.
By Philip Blenkinsop, Reuters | 03.27.2017

A majority of EU countries voted on Monday against allowing two new genetically modified crops to be grown in Europe...

Shadow of a pregnant woman standing.
By Associated Press | 03.27.2017

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a northeast Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into...

A woman's torso is shown laying on her side. She wears a white shirt and black pants. Hand is gently placed on the bottom of stomach.
By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 03.27.2017

Two women thought to be infertile have become pregnant using a technique that seems to rejuvenate ovaries, New Scientist can...

Inside a doctor's empty office.
By Jo MacFarlane, Daily Mail | 03.25.2017

A fertility treatment promoted as a more natural form of IVF is successful in just one in ten cases, leading...

Close up of a statue of Themis, the Greek Goddess of Justice, holding a scale in one hand. Sunshine falls and creates shadows in the statue crevices.
By César Palacios-González and María de Jesús Medina-Arellano, Oxford University Press | 03.24.2017

The birth of the the first child after a mitochondrial replacement technique has raised questions about the legality of such...

Two puppies wrestle by playing tug-of-war, with a rope between.
By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 03.24.2017

Image by Darby Browning from Pixabay

The European Patent Office will grant patent rights over the use of CRISPR in

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A gray wolf peers above the landscape.
By Luke Dormehl, Digital Trends | 03.24.2017

You’ve quite possibly heard of the Human Genome Project, the massive international science research project dedicated to sequencing the human...