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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 Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Bee | 08.05.2016
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Sacramento elementary-school teacher Debi Lawson recently finished a second job. Like teaching, it included prep and recovery time...

By Ed Silverman, STAT | 08.04.2016
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Even though various federal laws were designed to promote clinical trials for testing products in children, a notable...

By Deborah Ortiz, Sacramento Bee | 08.04.2016
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Assembly Bill 2531 is working its way through the Legislature and would expand the market in women’s egg...

By Kimberly Leonard, US News & World Report | 08.04.2016
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A recent study revealed that sheep created from the same biological matter used to make Dolly, the first...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 08.04.2016
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The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use...

By Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters | 08.03.2016
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This article is accompanied by 14 photographs by Carlos Garcia Rawlins, see the original article on Reuters...

By N.L., The Economist | 08.03.2016
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On August 3rd the British pharmaceutical company GSK said that it would charge €594,000 ($665,000) for a gene-therapy...