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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 Judith Benz-Schwarzburg & Arianna Ferrari, Slate | 06.03.2016

Animal research is moving rapidly in two divergent directions.

Research on animal cognition, behavior, and welfare is teaching us that...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.02.2016
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A group of scientists say they want work toward being able to create a synthetic version of the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.02.2016
Untitled Document Scientists on Thursday formally announced the start of a 10-year project aimed at vastly improving the ability to...
Image: Character posing with Autodesk Mudbox software, via Flickr. Autodesk is going "all in" with the HGP-Write moonshot.
By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 06.02.2016
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It’s time to build a synthetic human genome, say a group of famous scientists in an article published...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.01.2016
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Highlights
Layoffs, clinical trial closed
Conflicts of interest
Implications for CIRM
Risk and stem cell research


Twenty years...

By Matthew Schaer, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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One evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through...

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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In the Darwinian struggle of scientific ideas, the gene is surely among the select. It has become the...

By Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News | 05.31.2016

The National Institutes of Health announced May 27 it would award $142 million to the Mayo Clinic to establish the...