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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 Rob Ferguson, The Star | 10.01.2015

After years of pressure, Ontario has agreed to help infertile women under 43 get pregnant by paying for in vitro...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2015

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The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation's sleek marble building is on the outskirts of Seoul...

By Lizzie Wade, Wired | 09.30.2015

When the geneticist Gonçalo Abecasis stood up in front of a group of scientists in 2007 and proposed sequencing 1,000...

By BBC, BBC | 09.30.2015

Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the UK's first 10 womb transplants, following the success of the procedure...

By Alexandra Ossola, Popular Science | 09.29.2015
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Yesterday, the Broad Institute Foundry, a synthetic biology laboratory at MIT, announced its new contract with DARPA. The...

By Rich Wordsworth, Motherboard | 09.29.2015

In 2002, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough, a deaf lesbian couple from America, made headlines when they chose to conceive...

By Cameron Scott, Healthline | 09.29.2015
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Hacking the human genome has long made for great science fiction theater because it has always seemed fantastically...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 09.29.2015
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Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have produced an unexpected byproduct — tiny pigs that a leading Chinese genomics institute will...