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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 CTK, Prague Daily Monitor | 08.13.2015
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Prague, Aug 12 (CTK) - The Czech Republic has the first case of an infant who was born...

By Kevin Loria, Business Insider [Australia] | 08.13.2015

The real reason that we’ve never cloned a human, according to George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University, is...

By Margaret Farenger, The Detroit News | 08.13.2015
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Last year, The Detroit News covered a disturbing story of health inequity. For children, Detroit is the deadliest...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.12.2015
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With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. researchers have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.11.2015
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The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf...

By Dominic Basulto, Washington Post | 08.11.2015
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By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.11.2015
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Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg likes to make faces. But she doesn’t paint or sculpt them, precisely. She doesn’t even...

By Joshua A. Krisch, Vocativ | 08.11.2015

Even as Google and Apple promise employees egg-freezing privileges, the statistics behind in-vitro fertilization remain sobering. 75 percent of...