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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature | 04.07.2016

HIV can defeat efforts to cripple it with CRISPR gene-editing technology, researchers say. And the very act of editing —...

By Charles Piller, STAT | 04.07.2016
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Andrew Conrad, who runs Google’s ambitious biotech offshoot, successfully pushed the company to award a research contract to...

By Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour | 04.05.2016

A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are...

By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post | 04.04.2016
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African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research. A study released Monday sheds...

By Shobita Parthasarathy, The Conversation | 04.04.2016
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The worlds of science, technology and patent law eagerly await the U.S. government’s...

By Anna Foster & Parmida Jafari, The Varsity [University of Toronto] | 04.04.2016
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Not too long ago, ‘designer babies,’ genome editing and gene therapy were futuristic and expensive ideas that were...

Painting of Sir Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics
By Fraser Nelson, The Spectator [UK] | 04.02.2016
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The only way of cutting off the constant stream of idiots and imbeciles and feeble-minded persons who help...
By Jeneen Interlandi, Scientific American | 04.01.2016
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Precision medicine sounds like an inarguably good thing. It begins with the observation that individuals vary in their...