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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 Adam Johnson, AlterNet | 03.04.2016

Last week the screenwriter for the 2006 satirical science fiction comedy Idiocracy came out and said his film’s nightmare vision...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 03.03.2016

Veritas Genetics, a Boston-based biotech company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church, is claiming it can now sequence your entire...

By Gordon Atherley, Voice America | 03.01.2016

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Dr. Marcy Darnovsky is Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/. She describes...

By Greg Miller, The Atlantic | 03.01.2016

The crime was brutal. On November 4, 1989, after a night of heavy drinking, David Scott Detrich and a male...

By Stuart Newman, HuffPost Science | 02.29.2016

New genetic technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and synthetic biology are leading us to entirely new definitions of disease. Now...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 02.29.2016

“Welcome back, you two,” says assistant FBI director to Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. He unlocks the door to Mulder’s...

By Mary Ann Mason, Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.29.2016

This past fall, I gave a talk on work-and-family issues to a class of female students in the M.B.A. program...

By John Farrell, Forbes | 02.28.2016
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Paul Knoepfler is not a scientist given to alarmism, but it’s pretty clear from his informative new book...