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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...

Two cancer cells are merged together.
By Meghana Keshavan, STAT | 08.23.2016

Soon after she received the treatment, Karen Koehler’s brain swelled. Her blood pressure plummeted. As she fell into a coma...

An image from Earth in space.
By Joseph Neighbor, VICE Motherboard | 08.23.2016

This December, the signatory nations of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will meet, as they do every five years, to...

Illustrated drawing of an athletic female runner.
By South China Morning Post, South China Morning Post | 08.23.2016

At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, some of the fastest and strongest people in the world showed us what...

An individual holds a DNA model, with a concentrated face as if studying it.
By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 08.22.2016

Harvard geneticist George Church is convinced everyone should have his or her genomes sequenced. Such tests would reveal the rare...

The picture is focused on a wooden chess game, with an individual in the background.
By Doug Hill, Boston Globe | 08.21.2016

America's relationship with technology has always been marked by excitement with an undercurrent of unease. We’re exhilarated by the powers granted...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.19.2016
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Visitors to the website of StemGenex, a La Jolla medical group, could be forgiven for thinking that...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.18.2016
Untitled Document Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists...
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By Nature Editorial, Nature Editorial | 08.17.2016

More than one million people have now had their genome sequenced, or its protein-coding regions (the exome). The hope is...