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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 Sara Reardon, Nature | 05.18.2015

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to...

By Anne Schiff, The Jerusalem Post | 05.17.2015
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Sometimes it takes a tragedy to draw public attention to otherwise unconsidered problems.

The recent earthquakes in Nepal...

By Editorial, The Washington Examiner | 05.15.2015

Television actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé are tussling over what should happen to embryos they created through in vitro...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 05.14.2015

WASHINGTON — The federal government opened the door to a new era of genetic medicine on Thursday by introducing a...

By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman, Vox | 05.13.2015
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In his book Derailed, about his fall from academic grace, the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel explained his...

By Ryan Clarke and James Hyun, Tech Crunch | 05.13.2015

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Editor’s note: Ryan Clarke is a biochemistry PhD candidate...

By Jeantine Lunshof, Nature World View | 05.12.2015

Gene editing is a hot topic following a flurry of interest in the use of CRISPR tools to modify human...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 05.11.2015

Call it a ‘gut print’. The collective DNA of the microbes that colonize a human body can uniquely identify someone...