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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 Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 12.04.2014

Rarely could I be described in a headline in The New York Times, which explains why I lingered over...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.04.2014

Last month in San Francisco, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3...

By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 12.03.2014

A state appeals court decided unanimously Wednesday that California’s practice of taking DNA from people arrested for felonies -- though...

By Laura Hercher, The New York Times | 12.03.2014

To the Editor:

In “The Downside of Resilience” (Sunday Review, Nov. 30), Jay Belsky points to evidence that...

By Michelle Roberts and Paul Rincon, BBC | 12.02.2014
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A personal DNA test that has sparked controversy in the US has launched in the UK.

The UK's...

By Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC | 12.02.2014

Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to...

By Ben A. Minteer, Center for Humans and Nature | 12.01.2014

The Center for Humans and Nature and The Hastings Center have partnered on a series called, How far should we...

By Stuart A. Newman, The Huffington Post | 12.01.2014

The British Parliament appears poised to give the go-ahead to a set of techniques for generating infants which, if implemented...