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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 Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science | 10.16.2015
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The story of filmmaker Michael Usry’s arrest seems like it could have come straight from an episode of...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 10.16.2015
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On their websites, next to glossy pictures of babies, some fertility clinics and egg-donor agencies refer to eggs...

By Mirah Riben, HuffPost Blog | 10.15.2015
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"Give me children, or else I die. Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 10.15.2015
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So you’ve made a new product by genetically engineering a living organism, and are eager to sell it...

By The Economic Times, The Economic Times | 10.15.2015

NEW DELHI: A blanket ban may be imposed soon on NRIs, PIOs and foreigners having children through surrogacy in India...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 10.15.2015
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An inexpensive handheld device that can read strands of DNA has been hailed as revolutionary by scientists who...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2015
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Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA?

One Seattle-area...

By Editorial, Nature News | 10.14.2015
Untitled Document In 1975, some 140 scientists met at the Asilomar resort on California’s rocky Monterey Peninsula to discuss the...