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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 Richard Nchabi Kamwi, STAT | 06.15.2016

As the spread of mosquito-borne diseases has captured headlines in recent months, so too has a novel approach to mosquito...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 06.15.2016

Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already...

By Megan Scudellari, Nature | 06.15.2016

“We have colonies.”

Shinya Yamanaka looked up in surprise at the postdoc who had spoken. “We have colonies,” Kazutoshi Takahashi...

By Ted Morrow, Ted's Blog | 06.14.2016

This is an important paper because it may well be the last published set of experiments from the Newcastle group...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.14.2016

A startup called Strata Oncology says it plans to give away advanced genetic tests to 100,000 patients struggling with cancer...

By Sharon Brennan, The Guardian | 06.13.2016

“‘It’s like being told you’re going to be involved in a car crash, but you don’t know when it will...

By Colin Campbell, The News & Observer | 06.13.2016

The N.C. House voted 100-11 Monday to allow four county governments to compensate victims of forced sterilization – expanding a...

By Glyn Moody, Tech Dirt | 06.13.2016

One of the biggest victories on the patent front was when the US Supreme Court finally ruled that naturally-occurring DNA...