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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 Dr. Ainsley Newson, BioNews | 12.01.2014
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Geneticist Razib Khan's decision to obtain the whole genome sequence of his partner's fetus in utero shows us...

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 12.01.2014
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Enzymes that don't exist in nature have been made from genetic material that doesn't exist in nature either...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 12.01.2014
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The great scientist James Watson is to auction his Nobel prize medal. He told the Financial Times...

By Amy Klein, Newsweek | 11.29.2014
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In 2004, Danielle Decrette went in for in vitro fertilization. It wasn’t her first time—she and her husband...

By AP, Associated Press in Bangkok | 11.28.2014

Thailand’s interim parliament has given initial approval to a bill banning commercial surrogacy, the practice of hiring a woman to...

By Ludwig Burger and Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 11.26.2014
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(Reuters) - The Western world's first gene therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with...

By Iain Aitch, New Republic | 11.26.2014
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The most stirring art has the ability to make us stop, think, and even act, but a new...

By Julia Karow, GenomeWeb | 11.25.2014
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Results from an undercover performance test of five commercial noninvasive prenatal testing laboratories suggest...