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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 Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times | 06.17.2016

There is no question that the Tuskegee study is one of the most horrific examples of unethical research in recent...

By Angel Petropanagos, New Scientist | 06.17.2016

What should you do when you have a population that is shrinking and ageing amid a very low national birth...

By The Times Editorial Board, The Los Angeles Times | 06.16.2016

As part of the $171-billion budget deal struck by California lawmakers, a failed 20-year experiment in social engineering that tried...

By Andrew Joseph, Stat News | 06.16.2016

In a step that could lead to a new diabetes treatment, several Boston-area hospitals have teamed up with the Harvard...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.16.2016

A federal safety board next week will consider the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, according to the...

By Richard Nchabi Kamwi, STAT | 06.15.2016

As the spread of mosquito-borne diseases has captured headlines in recent months, so too has a novel approach to mosquito...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 06.15.2016

Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already...

By Megan Scudellari, Nature | 06.15.2016

“We have colonies.”

Shinya Yamanaka looked up in surprise at the postdoc who had spoken. “We have colonies,” Kazutoshi Takahashi...