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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 Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

By Katie Worth, Fusion | 06.24.2015
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Years later, none of it — not 84-year-old Eleonora Knoernschild’s bloody body on the shag carpet, not the...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Nature Comment | 06.23.2015
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This year, several leading researchers have sounded warnings about the risks of using the CRISPR gene-editing technique to...

By Michael J. Joyner & Nigel Paneth, JAMA | 06.22.2015

Personalized or precision medicine maintains that medical care and public health will be radically transformed by prevention and treatment programs...

By Debora Spar, Marie Claire | 06.22.2015
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Nine years ago, when she was 28, TLC's Dare to Wear host, Tai Beauchamp, called off her engagement...

By Rachel Smolker, Truthout | 06.22.2015
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The new movie Jurassic World offers more than a few lessons relevant to the state of our world...

By Craig Holdrege, The Nature Institute | 06.22.2015
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In recent years scientists have developed powerful tools to create specific breaks in DNA sequences. They can then...

By Megan Cassidy, The Arizona Republic | 06.22.2015
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Recent admissions by the FBI involving data errors in calculating DNA probabilities are challenging the infallibility of DNA...