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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 Diane Tober, Undark | 06.10.2016
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A curious battle is being waged over women’s bodies in the state of California. It’s not, as one...

By Joe Gibes, Trinity International University | 06.10.2016

The June 2016 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology includes a study of the conversations between patients and “Health Care Providers”...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.10.2016

Five weeks from now, on July 16, a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral to...

By Steve Sternberg, US News & World Report | 06.10.2016

A decade after Jean Burns was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, she needed a miracle. Even the drugs of last resort...

Red fibers indicate mitochondrial disease.
By Ricki Lewis, PLOS | 06.09.2016

The disconnect was striking between the headline of the news release a few days ago – “Improved method for mitochondrial...

By Tarek Bazley, Al Jazeera | 06.09.2016
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Seven years after creating their first organoid - a three-dimensional organ-bud grown in a test tube - Dutch researchers say the...

By Christopher Moraff, The Daily Beast | 06.09.2016

Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement.

Jones...

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian | 06.09.2016

If there is a prize for the fastest emerging tech controversy of the century the ‘gene drive’ may have...