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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 Linda Geddes, The Independent | 08.10.2015
Untitled Document Although she has two half-sisters from her dad’s previous marriage, there was nothing in Jess Pearce’s childhood to...
By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 08.10.2015

The association between a woman's age and her fertility never seems far from the news but recently there has been...

By Ben Fidler, Xconomy | 08.10.2015

To this point, the technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 has been a science project, a research tool with enormous potential—and significant...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 08.08.2015
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Mother Nature has always been life's master architect, working off genetic blueprints that are fine-tuned from one generation...

By Boen Wang, The Daily Collegian | 08.07.2015
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The lab is like many others. Located at the end of a long hall on the top floor...

By Penny Yi Wang, ABC News | 08.07.2015

Thailand, once a top choice for would-be parents around the world who were seeking a surrogate, has narrowed the...

By Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. & Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H., New England Journal of Medicine | 08.06.2015
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That clinical medicine has contributed enormously to our ability to treat and cure sick people is beyond contention...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 08.04.2015
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On an August morning in 2008, Tony Wyss-Coray sat in a conference room at the Veterans Affairs hospital...