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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 Sharon Begley, STAT | 04.20.2016
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For all the hoopla about CRISPR, the revolutionary genome-editing technology has a dirty little secret: it’s a very...

Kuwait International Airport (Wikimedia)
By Seung Lee, Newsweek | 04.19.2016
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Kuwait is set to become the first country in the world to require all its citizens, visitors and...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 04.19.2016
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At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Fredrik Lanner is preparing to edit genes in human embryos. It’s the...

Wikimedia: "The Princeton University Class of 1879, which included Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney, Daniel Barringer, and Charles Talcott."
By Barron Lerner, Forbes | 04.19.2016
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Princeton University’s decision to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name on a series of buildings and programs is the...

By Sital Kalantry, Women's eNews | 04.19.2016
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You may have never heard of the word PRENDA. But the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held...

By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 04.18.2016
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The couple wanted a baby boy, but the male embryo they had chosen — the only one available...

By Todd Bookman, NPR | 04.18.2016
Untitled Document Erika Stallings' mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 28. When it came back in...
By Emily Waltz, Nature | 04.14.2016

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will not regulate a mushroom genetically modified with the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9.

The...