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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 Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.06.2016

Move over, Big Pharma. Big Biotech is coming for you.

As drug developers and investors from around the world gather...

By Celia Luterbacher, Swiss Info | 06.05.2016

Sunday's vote, in which 62.4% of people backed the change, is the second time in a year that the Swiss have...

By Andrew Joseph, STAT News | 06.04.2016
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NEW YORK — Harvard Medical School’s George Church and Stanford University’s Drew Endy are top scientists who have...

By Judith Benz-Schwarzburg & Arianna Ferrari, Slate | 06.03.2016

Animal research is moving rapidly in two divergent directions.

Research on animal cognition, behavior, and welfare is teaching us that...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.02.2016
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A group of scientists say they want work toward being able to create a synthetic version of the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.02.2016
Untitled Document Scientists on Thursday formally announced the start of a 10-year project aimed at vastly improving the ability to...
Image: Character posing with Autodesk Mudbox software, via Flickr. Autodesk is going "all in" with the HGP-Write moonshot.
By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 06.02.2016
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It’s time to build a synthetic human genome, say a group of famous scientists in an article published...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.01.2016
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Highlights
Layoffs, clinical trial closed
Conflicts of interest
Implications for CIRM
Risk and stem cell research


Twenty years...