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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...

Close up image of three double helixes positioned diagonally, and subtly highlighted.
By Abby Olena, The Scientist | 05.18.2017

Sangamo Therapeutics will use zinc finger nucleases to introduce the gene for a missing clotting factor into the livers of

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By Jeremy Lent, Alternet | 05.17.2017

Will social inequality soon be programmed into our DNA?

The chasm between rich and poor in the world has become...

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By Joel Winston, Medium | 05.17.2017

A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service.

Don’t use the AncestryDNA testing service without actually reading the...

An illustrated graphic of a side-view of a human head. Their brain appears with six small double helix icons on the side.
By Parminder Deo and Jacqueline Paulis, NBC News | 05.17.2017

DNA is what makes us who we are. In humans, our genetic makeup is 99.9 percent similar to the person...

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By Mildred Solomon, Hastings Center News | 05.16.2017

Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon delivered a keynote address at the Future of Medicine conference, a national health care conference...

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By Matthew Brown, Associated Press | 05.16.2017

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely...

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By Eli Rosenberg, New York Times | 05.16.2017

It has been about three months since Terrell Gills’s release from jail, and there are still sleepless nights and days...

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By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 05.16.2017

He made the emotional plea to his colleagues: Pass this bill.

“It might give somebody like my wife a chance...