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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 Maria Petrakis, Bloomberg | 05.25.2015
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Making babies is a business as well as a way of life for father-of-eight Kostas Pantos.

As founder...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 05.24.2015
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Sometimes I get asked if I’m related to the great physicist Ernest Rutherford. His discoveries about the atomic...

By Glosswitch, New Statesman | 05.22.2015
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Surrogacy is not a new idea; indeed, there is a precedent in the book of Genesis, with the...

By Carey Goldberg, WBUR | 05.22.2015
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It was standing room only in the Harvard Medical School auditorium last week, the...

By Robert Pollack, Science | 05.22.2015
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In calling their perspective “A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification” (3 April, p...

By Michael Cook, MercatorNet | 05.21.2015
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The single most controversial development in biology in 2015 is a relatively cheap, easily manipulated technology for modifying...

By David Dobbs, BuzzFeed | 05.21.2015
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“Success in sight: The eyes have it!” Thus the scientific journal Gene Therapy greeted the news, in 2008...

By Neil Shah, Wall Street Journal | 05.20.2015
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Americans are postponing parenting and using fertility treatments to get pregnant. So what’s the financial toll? A new...