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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 AP, Bangkok Post | 03.23.2016
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An American-Spanish same-sex couple opened a high-profile custody battle on Wednesday for a baby girl born to a...

By Lindsay Kalter, Boston Herald | 03.23.2016
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A new study from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has provided new evidence of a genetic...

By Agence France-Presse, The Guardian | 03.22.2016
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A French court has given a one-year suspended jail sentence to a woman found guilty of defrauding two...

Two surgeons perform a hysterectomy (Wikimedia)
By Genevieve Field, The New York Times Magazine | 03.22.2016
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Ricky gazed up toward the pine trees as his mother, Cindy Preslar, pushed him along the village road...

By Andre Picard, The Globe and Mail [Canada] | 03.22.2016
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"Gene patents no longer need to stand in the way of diagnosing life-threatening disease."

That’s how Alex Munter...

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 03.22.2016
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With every new device and feature, Apple further builds out its ecosystem in ways meant to make sure...

By Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science | 03.21.2016
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When Chinese researchers reported using a technique called CRISPR/Cas9 to edit the genome of human embryos this past...

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 03.21.2016
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In the fall of 2015, U.S. college students ignited in protest about campus and national racism. Chanting “I...