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This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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By Jessica Pierce, New York Times | 03.06.2018

Why, people want to know, did Barbra Streisand decide to clone Samantha, her coton de tulear? What would compel someone...

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By Joel Michael Reynolds, Aeon Ideas | 03.05.2018

When I was three years old, I was told that my brother Jason had a 95 per cent chance of...

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By Sharon Begley, Stat News | 03.05.2018

The fear that CRISPR-based genome repair for preventing or treating genetic diseases will be derailed by “editing gone wild” has...

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By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 03.04.2018

“Three parent babies!!!!” was a shock-horror headline across the world when the UK was debating mitochondrial replacement therapy a couple...

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By Sujatha Byravan , The Hindu | 03.03.2018

The Delhi High Court recently ruled against discrimination in health insurance by United India Insurance Company involving a person with...

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By Gavin Evans, The Guardian | 03.02.2018

One of the strangest ironies of our time is that a body of thoroughly debunked “science” is being revived by...

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By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.01.2018

Back in 2004, when California's stem cell agency was little more than an idea in the minds of researchers, its...

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By Ellen Trachman , Above The Law | 02.28.2018

Talk about a terrible effort at legislation. The latest embryo disposition bill out of the Grand Canyon State, SB 1392...