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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 Matthew Schaer, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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One evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through...

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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In the Darwinian struggle of scientific ideas, the gene is surely among the select. It has become the...

By Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News | 05.31.2016

The National Institutes of Health announced May 27 it would award $142 million to the Mayo Clinic to establish the...

By Danielle Preiss & Pragati Shahi, The Atlantic | 05.31.2016

For the Australian couple Stephen and Michael, having kids involved people from five different countries. Australian law forbids anyone from...

By Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today | 05.29.2016

When doctors try to figure out whether a patient might become addicted to opioid painkillers, they rely on clinical risk...

By Louise Watt, US News & World Report | 05.29.2016

BEIJING (AP) — China's decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand...

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By Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph [UK] | 05.27.2016
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A British scientist will be able to genetically modify human embryos after being given the go ahead from...

By Tina Vasquez, Rewire | 05.27.2016
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The same white supremacy that declared Black men and women to be hypersexual also subjected troubled or abused...