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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 Sarah Zhang, WIRED | 08.15.2016
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WHAT DO YOU when you’re so clearly winning? When you’ve crushed your competitors and left them fighting over...

By John M. Hein, The Sacramento Bee | 08.13.2016
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Dramatic advances in science and technology are leading us into an unknown future with little citizen awareness, and...

By Aleszu Bajak, MIT Technology Review | 08.12.2016
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When his son Sam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at six months of age, Doug Melton was...

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian | 08.12.2016
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There is something like gold flowing through the veins of 100-year-old Maria Tegas, and everyone wants a piece...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 08.11.2016
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Australian bioethicist Rob Sparrow has written extensively on topics ranging from political philosophy and minority rights to the...

By Ian Johnston, The Independent | 08.11.2016
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When scientists announced in 2003 they had used a pioneering technique for the first time to create so-called...

By Lizzie Crocker & Abby Haglage, The Daily Beast | 08.10.2016
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In a November episode of The Mindy Project, a pajama-clad Dr. Lahiri told an auditorium of bright-eyed...

By Whet Moser, Chicago Magazine | 08.09.2016
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In June, 4.1 petabytes of cancer data went online on a new platform, run by the University of...