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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 RT, Russia Today | 11.19.2014

MPs from the populist nationalist party LDPR have prepared and drafted a motion requiring universal fingerprinting and DNA profiling of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.19.2014
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Ten years ago, scientists discovered that some people are naturally missing working copies of a gene known as...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 11.19.2014
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Hiding negative results and harmful side effects that occur in clinical trials would become harder in the United...

By William Wolfe-Wylie, Canada.com | 11.18.2014
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Even a decade ago, the idea of genetic discrimination sounded like science fiction. Today, it’s a reality Canadian law...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 11.18.2014
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Geneticists have a dirty little secret. More than a decade after the official completion of the Human Genome...

By Cath Becker and Suzan Clarke, Good Morning America | 11.18.2014
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Researchers at UCLA announced today that they had cured 18 children who were born with the so-called Bubble...

By The Philippine Star, The Philippine Star | 11.17.2014

MANILA, Philippines - Recent years have seen a boom in the number of stem cell clinics opening to the public...

By Margaret Somerville, National Post | 11.17.2014
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Apple’s and Facebook’s announcement last month that they would offer $20,000 health insurance coverage to women employees to...