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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 Barack Obama, The Boston Globe | 07.07.2016

Health care is always personal. As science and technology have advanced, it’s become possible to make it personalized as...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Magazine | 07.07.2016

President Barack Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study began to take shape this week with the announcement of four medical...

By Elizabeth Preston, STAT | 07.07.2016
When physicist Alex Zhavoronkov looked in the mirror one day and saw alarming swelling around his eyes, he guessed it...
By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 07.07.2016

Can light restore hearing in deaf people? Researchers hope that through optogenetics, they can use micro-LED lights to make...

By Alice Bell, The Guardian | 07.06.2016

Brexit has thrown British science into a mess. During this period of political upheaval, it might be tempting to...

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By The Irish Examiner, The Irish Examiner | 07.06.2016

Hidden effects on metabolism and ageing may make it harder to rid future generations of devastating inherited diseases using a...

By Tom Mendelsohn, ARS Technica | 07.06.2016

In 1975, the Swedish government decided it could help medical research by collecting a blood sample from every child born...

By Will Jackson & Vandy Muong, The Phnom Penh Post | 07.06.2016

A US-based commercial surrogacy agency, Surrogacy Cambodia, has begun marketing to US citizens “personalised services” – including surrogacy and gender...