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By Carly Mallenbaum, Axios [cites Surrogacy360] | 03.29.2026
Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/
Why it matters: Confusing...
By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026
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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...
By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.04.2014
Human genome sequencing pioneer J. Craig Venter has jumped with both feet into biomedical sequencing with his latest venture, Human...
By Leah Ramsey, Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin | 03.04.2014
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a historic public meeting last week, considering for the first time experiments...
By Miriam Zoll, Reporting on Health | 03.04.2014
A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that from 2009-2011 in California, hospital delivery...
By Donna L. Dickenson, The New Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 1 | 03.04.2014
After the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) in 2007, the pressure to commercialize women’s eggs for stem cell...
By Jonathan Kahn, HealthLawProf Blog | 03.03.2014
Genomic research is at an impasse. In the decade since the completion of the first draft of the human genome...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.03.2014
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...
By Adrienne Vogt, The Daily Beast | 03.03.2014
They’ve been called “baby factories,” conjuring up images of poor, illiterate women packed into bunks and forced by...
By Shu-Ching Jean Chen, Forbes | 03.03.2014
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February...