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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 Olof Hallonsten, Nature News | 10.03.2016

The eyes of the world are on the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm this week for the announcement of the Nobel...

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By Abby Lippman, Impact Ethics | 10.03.2016

Before any discussion of “surrogacy” policy and practice begins in Canada, it is imperative that we attend to the...

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By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 10.02.2016

News broke this week that the first “three-parent” baby had been born. But the untested and controversial nature of the...

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By John H. Evans, Oxford University Press Blog | 10.01.2016

The US government recently announced that it was lifting its moratorium on funding certain experiments that use human stem cells...

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By Viv Groskop, The Guardian | 10.01.2016

A new prenatal test could eradicate Down’s syndrome. Actress Sally Phillips, who has a child with the condition, explains why

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By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 09.30.2016

From designer babies to engineered mosquitoes, advances in genome-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 have raised the possibility of tremendous scientific...

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By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 09.30.2016

For the first time in almost 25 years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will pay for In Vitro Fertilization...

Black book titled "Eugenics"
By Marina Fang & JM Rieger, The Huffington Post | 09.28.2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered a litany of racist comments, which it turns out may be rooted in...