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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 Tim Buckland, Star News Online | 06.25.2016

LELAND -- After years of battles with the state, Elnora Mills is still waiting for a final payment from a...

By Ben Adams, Fierce Biotech | 06.24.2016
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CRISPR Therapeutics has raised an additional $38 million as part of its Series B raise, bringing its total...

By Bun Sengkong & Will Jackson, The Phnom Penh Post | 06.23.2016

Despite a veil of secrecy, details are beginning to emerge about Cambodia’s burgeoning commercial surrogacy industry.

In an article on...

By Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times | 06.23.2016

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed an appropriations bill that includes a provision to pay for assisted reproductive technology...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 06.23.2016

Now that a federal biosafety and bioethics committee has approved what would be the first use of the trailblazing genome-editing...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.22.2016

The surgeon gasped when he opened up his patient and saw what was in his spine. It was a huge...

By Danielle Venton, KQED News | 06.22.2016

When stem cells burst on to the public scene 20 years ago, hand-wringing and excitement in equal measure ensued.

Scientists...

By Karl Ritter, ABC News | 06.22.2016

A disgraced stem cell scientist is facing preliminary charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with two patients who died after...