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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 Barbara Czub, BioNews | 02.10.2014

Whole genome testing has been used to guide tailored treatment against advanced breast cancer in a group of 43 patients...

By Pritha Chatterjee and Mayura Janwalkar, The Indian Express | 02.09.2014
Among the registrations from 149 countries on http://www.surrogatefinder.com, a website offering free registration to egg and sperm donors, surrogate...
By Pritha Chatterjee, The Indian Express | 02.09.2014
An initial post-mortem report of the 23-year-old Yuma Sherpa, who died after an egg donation procedure at an IVF clinic...
By Tanya Selvaratnam, CNN | 02.08.2014
Editor's note: Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer, an actor, a producer, and an activist. As an activist, she has worked...
By Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times | 02.08.2014
What if laboratories could run comprehensive DNA tests on infants at birth, spotting important variations in their genomes that might...
By The Economist, The Economist | 02.08.2014

IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea...

By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 02.07.2014
Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics has settled one of a number of lawsuits over gene-related patents it filed against competitors...
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
Many of the stem cell lines used by academics and registered with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) would...