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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 Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica | 05.14.2014

On Tuesday, an Alaska man became the lead plaintiff in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed against the makers of Family...

By Amy Gutmann, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 05.14.2014

Neurological conditions—which include dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury—affect as many as one billion people...

By Ben Minteer, Nature World View | 05.14.2014

The North American sky, according to historical accounts, was once black with passenger pigeons. Hunters, however, saw to it that...

By Eric Hal Schwartz, In The Capital | 05.13.2014

Any medical advance always brings along con men hoping to exploit the news with useless or even dangerous "medicine" of...

By Agustín Fuentes, Psychology Today | 05.13.2014
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On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science...

By Jonathan Marks, In These Times | 05.12.2014
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Americans reject aspects of science—vaccinations, anthropogenic climate change, evolution—for diverse reasons. Sometimes those reasons are religious, sometimes economic...

By Nicole Hasham, The Sydney Morning Herald | 05.11.2014
Fertility clinics will be forced to hand over information about anonymous sperm donors so children can learn about their genetic...
By John Markoff, The New York Times | 05.09.2014
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When does a scientific conference warrant the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and...