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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 Nikhil Swaminathan, Aljazeera America | 05.11.2015
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In late January, President Barack Obama announced what some have called a moonshot.

The $215 million Precision Medicine...

By Dr Calum MacKellar, BioNews | 05.11.2015
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The short article by Robin Lovell-Badge entitled 'Editing human embryos' (see BioNews 799) addressing the work of...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 05.09.2015

Will the University of California reap the financial rewards of CRISPR's commercial use, likely worth billions of dollars? That's the...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 05.08.2015

A new rumor is spreading that Apple may be leveraging its ubiquity to encourage iPhone owners to participate in DNA...

By Rafael Romo, CNN | 05.08.2015

(CNN)An American couple who say they have been stuck in Mexico for weeks because officials there won't provide a birth...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.07.2015
Here's something that might sound strange: There are companies now that print and sell DNA.

This trend — which uses...

By Alice Park, Time | 05.07.2015

Doctors in Canada have begun a new chapter in medical history, delivering the first in a wave of babies expected...