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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 Nell GreenfieldBoyce, NPR | 08.13.2014

A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of...

By Council for Responsible Genetics, Council for Responsible Genetics | 08.12.2014

The current structure of biobanks in the United States is missing substantial federal and state policies to address and resolve people’s privacy...

By Vindu Goel, The New York Times | 08.12.2014

Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon...

By Jessica Cussins, CNBC | 08.11.2014

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As the genetically modified food wars wage on, another bombshell has been quietly waiting to...

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.09.2014

About 50 Australian couples' dreams of having surrogate children have been shattered after Thai authorities linked their Bangkok clinic with...

By Thaddeus Pope, Medical Futility Blog | 08.09.2014
Several Taiwanese researchers have just published a new study:  "Over-Optimistic Portrayal of Life-Supporting Treatments in Newspapers and on the Internet...
By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 08.08.2014

The notoriety of the Tuskegee syphilis study is unparalleled in the field of bioethics. Last week marked the 42nd anniversary...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 08.08.2014
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More than 130 leading population geneticists have condemned a book arguing that genetic variation between human populations could...