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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...

DNA Printout
By Chau Lam, Newsday | 12.09.2016

A day after the Queens district attorney announced he’d asked the state to approve a new type of DNA analysis...

A court gavel lays on top of a court ruling book.
By Sara Reardon, Nature | 12.07.2016

It was a tough day in US patent court for the University of California, Berkeley.

On 6 December, lawyers for...

Several chess pieces are photographed in black and white, with an emphasized black king piece standing tall.
By Sheila Kaplan, STAT | 12.05.2016

Sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act call it a win-win: a fusion of funds for medical research with new...

Black and white photo of a woman laying in a hospital bed.
By Geeta Nargund, BioNews | 12.05.2016

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Severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a serious and potentially fatal condition caused by overstimulation of...

Microscopic image of stem cell.
By David Wagner, KPBS | 12.05.2016

San Diego-based Stemgenex is asking regulators to let patients have access to stem cell treatments it calls "life-altering." But patients...

Portrait photo of Osagie Obasogie.
By Sara Grossman, Haas Institute, UC Berkeley | 12.02.2016

Osagie K. Obasogie is the new Haas endowed chair of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster. Obasogie, Professor...

Close -up photo of Donald Trump at a press conference.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 12.01.2016

Of all the memorable lines from this year’s election, the one I keep returning to months later—for self-interested reasons—is from...

Magnifying glass
By Martin H. Johnson, Reproductive BioMedicine Online | 12.01.2016

This editorial comments on a paper from Chen et al. (2016)), published in this issue of RBM Online, in...