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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 Tim Cushing, TechDirt | 09.30.2014
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The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database has been discussed here several times, thanks to its "expeditious" blend...

By Editorial, The Boston Globe | 09.30.2014
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THE ERA OF direct-to-consumer genetic testing means that anyone can pay $99, spit into a plastic vial, and...

By Robin Marantz Henig, Slate | 09.30.2014
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The cocktail party at the trendy Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo could have been a networking event for...

By Chad Terhune, Noam N. Levey, Sandra Poindexter, Los Angeles Times | 09.30.2014
Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5...
By Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week | 09.30.2014

It's hard to shake the feeling that eugenics can make a comeback. Or that it never really left us.

When...

By Robert Cook-Deegan, Genomics Law Report | 09.30.2014

On September 5, the Federal Court of Australia (the appeals court) upheld a claim on isolated DNA from the BRCA1...

By Natasha Robinson, The Australian | 09.29.2014
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IN inner-city Sydney, a man in his 50s answers an unexpected knock at the front door. It’s the...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.28.2014
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After five years the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has updated its guidelines for gamete donation in the...