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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...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, Dan Sarewitz, Samuel Weiss Evans, Arvis Sulovari, Eric A. Widra, Zócalo Public Square | 05.24.2016

With the ubiquitous ways we apply our knowledge of genetics today—in crop seeds, medicine, space—it’s hard to believe the...

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, Fusion | 05.24.2016

In 2006, author Alon Ziv published the first edition of Breeding Between the Lines, a haphazard exploration of the...

By Greg Roumeliotos & Mike Stone | 05.24.2016

German drugs and chemicals group Bayer has made an unsolicited takeover proposal to U.S. seeds company Monsanto, aiming to create...

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By BBC News, BBC | 05.23.2016

Surrogacy laws which prevent single people from claiming parental rights are set to change following a ruling by the Family...

By Filipo Lentzos & Nicholas Evans, The Guardian | 05.23.2016

18-months of deliberation on how to regulate research enhancing the transmissibility and virulence of viruses will end when the National...

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By Michael J. de la Merced & Chad Bray, The New York Times | 05.23.2016

The German industrial giant Bayer has finally revealed its $62 billion takeover bid for Monsanto as it seeks to create...

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By Pete Shanks, Deccan Chronicle | 05.22.2016

On May 10, about 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and others held an invitation-only event at Harvard. Organisers told invitees not to...

By Reniqua Allen, The New York Times [Opinion] | 05.21.2016
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It all started with these little chocolate colored pink and blue ceramic babies. They were a strange Christmas...