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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 Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 05.23.2014
An important question in contemporary bioethics concerns the role of genetic and neurobiological determinism in crime. What role do genes...
By John Farrell, Forbes | 05.23.2014
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One thing the recent cloning breakthroughs have highlighted is the lack of engagement with the issue from the...

By Rachel Glaser, WHAM TV | 05.23.2014

Rochester, N.Y. -- People who undergo increasingly popular genetic testing could be penalized, forced to pay higher premiums or denied...

By Dana Perls, Food and Technology Blog | 05.22.2014

Two Mondays ago, I sat in a room of some of the most powerful agribusiness, food and synthetic biology companies...

By Steven Brown and Mary McElroy, Providence Journal | 05.22.2014

The presumption of innocence lies at the heart of our system of criminal justice, but a bill that will soon...

By Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic | 05.21.2014
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Forty years ago, there was exactly one way for humans to reproduce. A man’s sperm would combine with...

By Andy Thompson, Post-Crescent Media | 05.20.2014
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Wisconsin has joined a handful of states in allowing familial DNA testing — a powerful but debatable procedure...

By Abby Phillip, Washington Post | 05.20.2014

California legislators are hoping to make resolving the tricky issue of parental rights as easy as filling out a form...