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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 | 12.24.2014
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In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white.

The state’s Racial...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 12.24.2014
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Scientists have made primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs in a medical feat that could transform the...

By Darlena Cunha, The Atlantic | 12.22.2014
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When Rhyannon Morrigan and her husband Drew used an egg donor and surrogate to have their child at...

By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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A year after the US Food and Drug Administration urged 23andMe to stop the marketing of its personal...

By Mirah Riben, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1932), Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale, 1985), and Lois Lowry...

By Martin Fackler, The New York Times | 12.19.2014
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TOKYO — In a blow to the prestige of Japan’s scientific community, a government-backed research institute accepted...

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.18.2014

Today the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that human embryonic stem cell patents could be allowed if organisms can't...

By SMFM, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine | 12.18.2014

A recent article in the Boston Globe presents a disturbing picture of prenatal testing, in a report describing how “...