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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 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 04.12.2016

2014 saw the birth of more babies than ever who got their start in the petri dish of a fertility...

By Jason Koebler, Motherboard [VICE] | 04.12.2016
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The gene-editing future of medicine is fast approaching—or at least it’s beginning to feel that way—but one of...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science/AAAS | 04.11.2016
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A sweeping look at the DNA of more than half-a-million people has uncovered a surprise: A few individuals...

By Felicity Boardman, BioNews | 04.11.2016
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In February 2016, the UK's first licence to use CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing techniques in human embryo research was granted...

By Shreejana Shrestha, Republica [Nepal] | 04.10.2016
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KATHMANDU, April 11: While the government has already decided the fate of surrogacy babies born or conceived before...

Three bottles are held on a test tube rack as someone inserts fluid from a pipette.
By Marcy Darnovsky & George Church, Wall Street Journal | 04.10.2016

The development of technology that allows human genes to be edited has stirred tremendous excitement about the potential for treating...

By Marion Callahan, Bucks County Courier Times / The Herald | 04.09.2016
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Danette Peeples felt broken.

For more than two years, she looked at women who were pregnant and thought...

By Alana Cattapan & Françoise Baylis, The Star [Toronto] | 04.09.2016
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Every so often people complain about a shortage of sperm donors in Canada. For example, Liberal MP Anthony...