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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 Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Magazine | 04.28.2015
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The journal that days ago published the first-ever paper on an attempt to genetically modify human embryos has...

By John Sotos, Wall Street Journal | 04.28.2015
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Think of all the trouble that computer hackers cause. Now imagine what DNA hackers could do.

In the...

By Debra Kamin, Time | 04.28.2015
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An Israeli Boeing-747 returned from Nepal to Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, and among its...

By H. Gilbert Welch and Wylie Burke, Los Angeles Times | 04.27.2015
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President Obama proposes to plunk down $215 million on "precision medicine," and the National Institutes of Health and...

By Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post | 04.27.2015
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One of the national organizations that govern DNA laboratories has ordered the District’s new crime lab to immediately...

By Oscar Quine, The Independent | 04.26.2015

London – Police forces across the UK are testing technology that allows officers to analyse DNA samples in custody suites, amid...

By Society for Developmental Biology, Society for Developmental Biology | 04.24.2015

The Board of Directors of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) and the Editors of its official journal Developmental Biology...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 04.24.2015
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In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts...