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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 Editorial, New Scientist | 01.29.2014
It didn't take long after Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 for maverick scientists to start talking about cloning...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.28.2014
The whistle-blower who played a key part in exposing the fraud of South Korean cloning specialist Woo Suk Hwang has...
By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 01.27.2014
On July 20, 2010, Andrew Alexander, founder and director of easyDNA, received a letter from the US Food and Drug...
By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 01.27.2014
SEQUENCING genomes has become easy. Understanding them remains incredibly hard. While the trickle of sequence information has turned into a...
By David DiSalvo, Forbes | 01.26.2014
By the middle of 2014, the prospect of altering DNA to produce a genetically-modified human could move from science fiction...
By Benjamin Winterhalter, Salon | 01.26.2014

On Nov. 22, 2013, the FDA sent a now-infamous letter to the genetic research startup 23andMe, ordering the company to...

By David Jensen, Sacramento Bee | 01.26.2014
The state of California is preparing to make a bet of up to $40 million on a fast-moving field that...
By Steven Rose, TES | 01.24.2014

Genes, intelligence and education: a heady brew of issues. Add class, race or gender, as has happened so many times...