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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 Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 09.24.2014

The perseverance and scientific innovation of Dr. Mary Claire King, the geneticist whose efforts to identify the BRCA genes were...

By David Weisbrot, The Age | 09.23.2014
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Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie recently created controversy by claiming in her first speech to Parliament that...

By Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov | 09.23.2014
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The FBI is preparing to accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for the government's massive new biometric identification database.

Developers...

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 09.23.2014
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Criminals including murderers and rapists could attempt to have their convictions overturned after the Home Office admitted that...

By Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2014
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An illicit surrogacy trade is burgeoning in the Chinese capital Beijing, where would-be parents can pay surrogate mothers...

By Thao Vi - An Dien, Thanh Nien News | 09.23.2014
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 “We are startled by the sex ratios at birth in some communes in the Red River Delta, which...
By Zócalo Public Square, Zócalo Public Square | 09.23.2014

How can we prevent these technologies from falling into the wrong hands?

Synthetic biology has been called “genetic engineering...

By Mohit Kumar Jolly, The Conversation | 09.23.2014

Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence DNA, or “determination of base...