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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 Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review | 10.31.2014
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This week Google described its ambitious plan to use magnetic nanoparticles circulating through the blood to detect and...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.31.2014
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The thorny and unresolved question of whether life itself can be patented may come again before the U.S...

By Eric Mennel, NPR | 10.31.2014
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Debra Blackmon was about to turn 14 in January 1972, when two social workers came to her home...

By Glenn Ashton, AllAfrica | 10.30.2014
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Synthetic food has long been the subject of speculative fiction, from Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" where poor...

By Chris O'Brien, Venture Beat | 10.29.2014
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VIENNA, Austria — Say this for Austen Heinz: His vision for the future will either thrill you or...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 10.29.2014
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For decades, biologists have studied gene function by inactivating the gene in question in mice and other lab...

By ETC Group, ETC Group | 10.29.2014
MONTREAL, 29 Oct. 2014–On the eve of the largest annual gathering of synthetic biologists in the world, ETC Group and...
By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies, Our Blog | 10.28.2014
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Apple recently announced it was joining Facebook in covering costs for female employees who opt to freeze their eggs for...