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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 Jeffrey Marlow, Wired | 03.30.2015
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Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has...

By Sheila Burke, Associated Press | 03.28.2015
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Nashville prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations at least four times in the past...

By C. Simone Fishburn, BioCentury | 03.26.2015
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Once CRISPR catapulted gene editing to the forefront of DNA-based technology, it was only a matter of time...

By Misti Ault Anderson, The blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 03.26.2015
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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today released Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of...

By Beverly Merz, Harvard Health Blog | 03.26.2015
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President Obama’s announcement of a Precision Medicine Initiative was one of the few items in this year’s State...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 03.26.2015

Angelina Jolie Pitt's decision to have her ovaries surgically removed, which the actress and director detailed in The New York...

By Alexandra Witze, Nature | 03.26.2015

When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launches on a one-year mission to the International Space Station on 28 March, he will...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.25.2015

The company, DeCode Genetics, based in Reykjavík, says it has collected full DNA sequences on 10,000 individuals. And because...