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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 Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 07.07.2015
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The computing resources needed to handle genome data will soon exceed those of Twitter and YouTube, says a...

By Jacob Corn, Innovative Genomics Initiative blog | 07.06.2015
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It’s been a rather wild ride in the last month, which hasn’t left much time for blog posts. But...

By Michelle Munz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 07.05.2015

The video is about 30 seconds long. Dawn Guhe has watched it at least 100 times. It captures the first...

By Amrit Dhillon, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2015
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Two years after it was first mooted, India is close to finalising a draft bill to regulate the...

By Philippe Sotto, Time | 07.03.2015
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France’s highest court has granted legal recognition to surrogate children, in a major turnaround that will make their...

By Neetu Chandra Sharma, India Today | 07.03.2015
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A bunch of 22 pregnant women seems anxiously waiting to deliver, though without any other emotion attached to...