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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 Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Wired | 10.24.2014
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A self-proclaimed geek friend once described Silicon Valley as a place where instead of going to the movies...

By Karen Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 10.24.2014
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James Collins, a synthetic biologist at Boston University, says he’s been able to print the ingredients for simple...

By Youkyung Lee, Associated Press | 10.24.2014
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The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by...

By Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph | 10.23.2014

Foreigners will be allowed to undergo controversial IVF treatment creating 'three-parent babies' in Britain if Parliament green-lights the treatment, a...

By Marcy Darnovsky, RH Reality Check | 10.23.2014

News about Silicon Valley’s egg-freezing perk has ignited many much-needed conversations about the tech industry’s family-unfriendly workplaces and policies that...

By Josh Dean, Bloomberg Businessweek | 10.22.2014
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Behind glass in a never-before-used operating room inside a just-built cabin at the end of a freshly paved...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 10.21.2014

A Polish man who was paralyzed from the chest down after a knife attack several years ago is now able...

By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review | 10.21.2014

The signs of the gap—really, a chasm—between the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon Valley. On...