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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...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.19.2016
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Visitors to the website of StemGenex, a La Jolla medical group, could be forgiven for thinking that...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.18.2016
Untitled Document Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists...
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By Nature Editorial, Nature Editorial | 08.17.2016

More than one million people have now had their genome sequenced, or its protein-coding regions (the exome). The hope is...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.17.2016
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A junior scientist formerly employed by the Broad Institute says the storied MIT-Harvard institution’s claim to have invented...

By Ziyaad Bhorat, openDemocracy | 08.17.2016
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In the last 70 years we’ve come a long way towards unraveling the building blocks of human life...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.16.2016
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The meter is running like mad on the dispute over key patents on CRISPR genome editing. In its...

By Dyllan Furness, Digital Trends | 08.15.2016
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Right now, for just $140, you can get your hands on one of the most powerful gene-editing tools...

By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 08.15.2016
Athletes are keeping their distance from a genetic test for concussion risks Boosters have billed it as the cheek swab that...