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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 Jacques Delors and Lionel Jospin, Libération | 07.13.2014
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In February 2013, you made a formal commitment against the...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 07.12.2014

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk celebrated Nikola Tesla’s birthday this week with a US$1 million donation to set up a Tesla...

By Beth Garbitelli, Portland Press Herald | 07.12.2014
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MONTPELIER, Vt. —The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can’t collect DNA from suspects in criminal...

By Zelda Bronstein, 48 Hills | 07.11.2014

In recent weeks 48 hills has revealed that the Planning Department’s lax enforcement of San Francisco’s zoning laws has allowed...

By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post | 07.11.2014
I’m not betting on it, but if, by some miracle, Argentine winger Angel Di Maria is on the pitch against...
By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | 07.10.2014

OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog is urging insurance companies and others to stop asking for access to the results of existing genetic...
By Dan Koboldt, MassGenomics | 07.10.2014

I first started MassGenomics in the early days of next-gen sequencing, when Illumina was called “Solexa” and came in fragment-end...

By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy | 07.10.2014
In every one of the dozens of bioterrorism meetings I have attended over the last three decades, experts have stated...