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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 Renate Lindeman, Washington Post | 06.16.2015
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Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 06.15.2015

More than a decade after a young man committed suicide during a psychiatric clinical trial at the University of Minnesota—and...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 06.15.2015
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The crimes and misdemeanors of science used to be handled mostly in-house, with a private word at the...

By Jeannie Wurz, SwissInfo [Switzerland] | 06.14.2015
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About 62% (61.9%) of Swiss voters have said yes to genetic screening of embryos before implantation in a...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 06.14.2015

STANFORD -- In the 1990s, Stanford's Irv Weissman created a unique way to grow and deliver blood stem cells to...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 06.13.2015
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The dominant view of bioethics frames issues in terms of autonomy and individual rights. A retrospective in the...

By Andrew Chung, Reuters | 06.12.2015
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A U.S. appeals court said on Friday that the discovery of a new form of prenatal testing that...

By MetroNews, MetroNews [Canada] | 06.12.2015

It was a bittersweet day for forensic science in 1998, when retired Quebec Court Justice Fred Kaufman released his report...