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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 Colette Shade, VICE Broadly | 01.17.2016
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What will a young woman do for $8,000 dollars? Eight grand is the going rate on a healthy...

By Aubrey Sanders, BreakThru Radio | 01.16.2016
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One of the most profoundly consequential debates modern science has ever faced is unfolding at this very moment...

By Lindsey Hoshaw, KQED | 01.15.2016
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This isn’t an everyday patent dispute.

This is a battle for who invented the powerful gene-editing technique that...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 01.14.2016
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California’s ambitious, $18 million effort to develop -- in relatively short order -- a stem cell therapy for...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.13.2016
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LaQuenta Caldwell-Moody considered it improper when a pharmacy sales representative tried to take her teenage son, when he...

By Elena Kadvany, Palo Alto Weekly | 01.13.2016
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What began as one Jordan Middle School seventh-grader's research project on the questionable history of the school's namesake...

By Phys.org, Phys.org | 01.13.2016

Sperm that don't swim well rank high among the main causes of infertility. To give these cells a boost, women...