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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...

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By ASNA, ASNA | 07.20.2016

(ANSA) - Milan, July 20 - Controversial fertility doctor Severino Antinori was indicted Wednesday for forcibly removing eight eggs from...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 07.20.2016

An important test of gene therapy in Italy is bringing joy and heartbreak to families afflicted with a rare brain...

By Bradley J. Fikes, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 07.20.2016

The modern era’s dramatic advances in medical care relies on more than scientists, doctors and biomedical companies. None of it...

By Michael Cook, Mercatornet | 07.20.2016

In 2004 the editors of the journal Foreign Policy asked several prominent intellectuals to identify the world’s most dangerous idea...

By Renate van der Zee, Al Jazeera [Czech Republic] | 07.19.2016

Ostrava, Czech Republic - "To be able to have children is so important for a woman," says Elena Gorolova. "When...

By Catherine Saint Louis, The New York Times | 07.19.2016

Women undergoing in vitro fertilization have long worried that the procedure could raise their risk for breast cancer.

After...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 07.18.2016

WASHINGTON — At scientific meetings on genome-editing, you’d expect researchers to show pretty slides of the ribbony 3-D structure of the...

By Mike Orcutt, MIT Technology Review | 07.18.2016

With the right technologies to collect and make sense of biomedical information, we could speed up the pace of discoveries...