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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...

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 07.14.2016

On May 17, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which is the agency charged with enforcing Title II of...

By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 07.14.2016

Gene editing must never be used to create “designer babies” with enhanced abilities, the director of the National Institutes of...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.14.2016

Something strange is going on in medicine. Major diseases, like colon cancer, dementia and heart disease, are waning in...

By Editorial, The Korea Times | 07.13.2016

Embryonic stem cell research will resume soon after the Ministry of Health and Welfare granted conditional approval to a private...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.13.2016

The California stem cell agency is set to award nearly $10 million for a phase 3 clinical trial to produce...

By Jane Qiu, Nature News | 07.12.2016

On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl. Along the...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 07.12.2016

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave Juno Therapeutics the all-clear to resume testing an experimental cancer treatment, just days after shutting down the...

By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 07.12.2016

Shortly after 8:00 this morning, more than two dozen people filled the small conference room at the National Academies’ Keck...