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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 John Horgan, Scientific American [Blogs] | 03.13.2015
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In 1990 The New York Times published a front-page article by Lawrence Altman, a reporter with a medical...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 03.13.2015
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American scientists have attempted to modify the DNA of human egg cells using a new gene-editing technique that...

By Robert Klitzman, CNN | 03.13.2015
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"I decided to get genetic testing on the outside without telling my doctor," a woman recently told me...

By Nayef Al-Rodhan, Scientific American | 03.13.2015
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In the past four decades technology has fundamentally altered our lives: from the way we work to how...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.12.2015
Untitled Document Officials of a biotechnology industry group have called for a voluntary moratorium on using new DNA-editing techniques to...
By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 03.12.2015
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As I reported earlier, 23andMe today announced its intention to pursue pharmaceutical R&D, in addition to its...

By Edward Lanphier, Fyodor Urnov, Sarah Ehlen Haecker, Michael Werner & Joanna Smolenski, Nature News | 03.12.2015
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It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify the DNA of human embryos...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 03.12.2015
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Amid rumours that precision gene-editing techniques have been used to modify the DNA of human embryos, researchers have...