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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 Shin Sung-Sik, Kang Ki-Heon, and Esther Chung, Joongang Daily [South Korea] | 05.20.2016

The use of fresh egg cells in stem cell research, banned in Korea for years, is being hotly debated by...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 05.19.2016
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The drug industry blames the Food and Drug Administration for driving up the research and development costs of new...

By Tanya Lewis, The Scientist | 05.19.2016

A Senate committee is today (May 19) taking a first look at a bill that would extend a federal ban...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.18.2016

A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos...

By Kelly Crowe, CBC News | 05.18.2016

Would you read a story if this was the headline: "New study raises questions about an experimental treatment that might...

By Emma Green, The Atlantic | 05.16.2016

Over the past year, Indiana hasn’t exactly been a leader in anti-discrimination law. Last spring, the state faced massive protests...

By Andy Balmer, PLOS Synbio Community | 05.16.2016

Secrecy has long been a part of scientific and innovation practices. Being an ethnographer of laboratories, one occasionally comes up...

By Ian Johnston, The Independent [UK] | 05.15.2016
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The UK’s fertility watchdog is becoming “increasingly concerned” that private clinics are offering ‘add-on’ treatments which have not...