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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 Leslie E. Wolf, Erin Fuse Brown, and Laura Beskow, The Conversation | 03.28.2016

On February 25, the White House hosted a forum on the National Institute of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative. This...

By Howard Lovy, Foreword Reviews | 03.24.2016
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If you think the argument over the benefits and risks of genetically modified foods is confusing and contentious...

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By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 03.24.2016
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Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent...

By Kate Lunau, VICE Motherboard | 03.23.2016
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When Feng Zhang was a kid growing up in Iowa, he saw Jurassic Park, like just about...

A human ovary is punctured by an operator who inserts a needle through the vaginal wall and into an ovarian follicle to remove an oocyte for storage.
By Press Association, The Guardian | 03.23.2016
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The number of women choosing to freeze their eggs to have babies later in life has soared, figures...

By AP, Bangkok Post | 03.23.2016
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An American-Spanish same-sex couple opened a high-profile custody battle on Wednesday for a baby girl born to a...

By Lindsay Kalter, Boston Herald | 03.23.2016
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A new study from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has provided new evidence of a genetic...

By Agence France-Presse, The Guardian | 03.22.2016
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A French court has given a one-year suspended jail sentence to a woman found guilty of defrauding two...