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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 Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR | 02.18.2014

More couples than ever are turning to in vitro fertilization to help build families.

In 2012, more than 61,000 babies...

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Oxford University Press's Blog | 02.18.2014
Osagie K. Obasogie, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings with a joint appointment at...
By Professor Eric Blyth, Dr Marilyn Crawshaw and Professor Olga van den Akker, BioNews | 02.17.2014

As the surrogacy industry grows, so too do calls from parts of the consumer lobby, fertility industry and others for...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 02.17.2014
A leading Japanese research institute has opened an investigation into a groundbreaking stem-cell study after concerns were raised about its...
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 02.16.2014
On February 25 and 26 the US Food and Drug Administration will discuss the possibility of legalising three-parent embryos –...
By A'ndrea Elyse Messer, Penn State News | 02.14.2014
Chicago -- Racism as a social and scientific concept is reshaped and reborn periodically through the ages and according to...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 02.14.2014
Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk electrified the science world 10 years ago with his claim that he had created the world’s...
By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 02.13.2014
You grew up on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota. How did Native Americans view tribal membership back then?
Before...