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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 Howard Brody, Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma | 08.23.2014

Jack E. James, who appears to hail from either Reykjavik University in Iceland or the National University of Ireland in...

By The Australian, The Australian | 08.21.2014

THE state government says its world-first legislation will balance the rights of donors with those of donor-conceived people who wish...

By Mary Papenfuss, Reuters | 08.20.2014

Birth certificates in California would be changed to more accurately reflect families in which parents are of the same gender...

By William P. Hanage, Nature | 08.20.2014

Explorations of how the microscopic communities that inhabit the human body might contribute to health or disease have moved from...

By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | 08.20.2014
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“I once had a very good professor who gave me very bad advice,” UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster...

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo! Health | 08.19.2014
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When news broke earlier this month about baby Gammy — the newborn with Down syndrome who was left...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 08.18.2014

The National Science Foundation's (NSF’s) role in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is starting to take...

By UN Women, UN Women | 08.18.2014

New Delhi, July 22, 2014 – The sharply declining child sex ratio in India has reached emergency proportions and urgent...