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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 Ted Morrow, The Conversation | 02.01.2015
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Diseases caused by genetic mutations in the mitochondria – the powerhouses of the cell – can be disabling...

By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times | 02.01.2015
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Privacy advocates are calling for more safeguards related to a state collection of DNA samples from 16 million...

By Toni Clarke and Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.30.2015
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The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of...

By Julia Belluz, Vox | 01.30.2015
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The White House is committing $215 million to support efforts to develop personalized medicine, a priority the President...

By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times Well Blog | 01.29.2015
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A large study has found that assisted reproduction technology, or ART, has markedly improved over the past 20...

By The Local, The Local [Germany] | 01.29.2015

"There is no specific minimum age necessary for the child," the judges wrote in their decision, adding that parents could...

By Michael J. Joyner, The New York Times | 01.29.2015
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President Obama's new budget is expected to include hundreds of millions of dollars for so-called precision medicine. The...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 01.29.2015
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The precision medicine initiative proposed by President Barack Obama last week would center on a huge new biobank...