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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 Sean Sullivan, Washington Post | 09.15.2014
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Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce resigned as first vice chairman of the state Republican Party Sunday after...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.13.2014
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English barrister and medical ethicist Charles Foster has penned defence of “human dignity” as the foundation of bioethics...

By Alice Park, Time | 09.12.2014
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan surgically transplanted a sheet of retinal pigment cells...

By Cailin O’Connor, Slate | 09.11.2014
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Is our behavior determined by genetics, or are we products of our environments? What matters more for the...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 09.11.2014

New leaked e-mails showing the comments of referees for Science and Nature provide more insight into the saga of the...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 09.10.2014

A Japanese patient with a debilitating eye disease is about to become the first person to be treated with induced...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.10.2014
BERKELEY, Ca. -- Directors of the California stem cell agency today approved a measure aimed at easing conflicts of interest...
By Nina Liss-Schultz, RH Reality Check | 09.10.2014
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San Francisco might become the first city to explicitly condemn sex-selective abortion bans, if a resolution introduced Tuesday...