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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...

Landscape photo shows an iceberg. Below the water, the iceberg continues to deepen.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The New Yorker | 12.14.2015

Specter highlights exciting developments in the field of gene editing, but he is too quick to dismiss the shadow side...

By Oliver Moody, The Times | 12.14.2015
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The Church of England could agree to the genetic modification of human embryos, its medical ethics adviser has...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post [Canada] | 12.13.2015
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Health Canada has made just two attempts to enforce its controversial fertility law since early 2014, mildly rebuking...

By Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 12.12.2015
Untitled DocumentInstitutional review boards (IRBs), designed to serve as gatekeepers protecting patients from unethical human research practices, are under...
By Robin Marantz Henig, National Geographic | 12.11.2015

Some people are taller than others. Others have wider hips, lighter hair, longer toes, or flatter feet. No one disputes...

By Eleonore Pauwels & Jim Dratwa, Scientific American | 12.10.2015
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Kannapolis, North Carolina, is a desolate town, plagued by unemployment since the main employer, a textile mill, suddenly...

By Chloe Poston, Genes to Genomes | 12.09.2015

Last week, the National Academies of Science and Engineering joined forces with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Royal Society...

By Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Impact Ethics | 12.08.2015
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The development of CRISPR, a cut-and-paste gene editing technology, has pushed discussions of germline gene “therapy” from speculation...