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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 Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.05.2015

T. Ryan Gregory’s lab at the University of Guelph in Ontario is a sort of genomic menagerie, stocked with creatures...

By Andrew Maynard, The Conversation | 03.04.2015
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On July 31, 2012, a massive blackout swept across northeast India. At 1 pm local time, a power...

By Jeremy B. White, The Sacramento Bee | 03.04.2015

In 2015, genes have many uses.

Soon after every baby in California is born, a hospital worker extracts and logs...

By Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 03.03.2015

In a move that stunned the stem cell field, the first researcher to create cloned human cells—and to derive embryonic...

By Justine Drennan, Foreign Policy | 03.02.2015
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When Thailand’s parliament passed a law banning most forms of surrogacy late last month, its main motivations were...

By Frederik Joelving, Reuters | 03.02.2015

(Reuters Health) - Renting out their wombs may ease financial problems for poor women in India, but new research...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 03.02.2015

A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately...

By Nick Stockton, Wired | 03.02.2015

For the last week, an Italian neurosurgeon has been executing a full-blown media offensive, talking up his plan to stitch...