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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 Global Dispatch, Global Dispatch | 02.13.2015

The so-called “three-parent embryo” legislation that the United Kingdom’s House of Commons passed Feb. 3 likely breaches a European Union...

By Helia Ighani, Council on Foreign Relations | 02.13.2015
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Since 2001, major metropolitan cities have increasingly conducted gas and chemical attack simulations in subway systems. Police departments...

By Denise Balkissoon, The Globe and Mail | 02.12.2015
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For 2 1/2 years, Sara Karklins tried very, very hard to get pregnant. In the fall of 2010...

By Verónica Calderón, El Pais | 02.12.2015
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Luis Delgado and José Antonio Fernández, a gay married couple from Spain, decided to have a child via...

By Corine Lesnes, Le Monde | 02.12.2015
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S’il fallait résumer la philosophie transhumaniste d’une idée, la plus extrême mais aussi la plus saisissante, ce serait...

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.12.2015

Since the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) birth in 1978 more than 5 million babies have been born using this...

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 02.12.2015
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Solid scientific evidence can be crucial for solving crimes. But science may have been progressing too fast for...

By Ahn Mi-Young and Dennis Normile, Science Insider | 02.10.2015
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The scientist who once fraudulently claimed to have created embryonic stem cells matched to human patients and the...