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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 Ann Griswold, Spectrum News | 03.21.2016
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A new test claims to assess a child’s risk of autism based on abnormal folds in the placenta...

The Kabuki-cho entertainment district of Tokyo, Japan.
By The Mainichi, The Mainichi | 03.19.2016

Seventy-four wealthy Chinese couples struggling with infertility have had children using surrogates in Japan introduced by a broker, it has...

By Keston Ott-Dahl, HuffPost | 03.18.2016
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When my partner Andrea became a surrogate for another lesbian couple we had no idea we would end...

Figure 3. Fundus of patient with retinitis pigmentosa, end stage (Pigment deposits are present all over the retina. Retinal vessels are very thin and optic disc is pale.) Hamel Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2006 1:40 doi:10.1186/1750-1172-1-40 (Wikimedia)
By Katherine Bourzac, MIT Technology Review | 03.18.2016
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A blind woman in Texas is the first person to undergo therapy based on an emerging technology called...

By Amy Speier, The Conversation | 03.17.2016
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In 2008, a friend sent me a link to a Czech company called IVF Holiday. Clicking the link...

Statue of a young boy in the Reflection Garden at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon (Flickr/Mary Harrsch).
By Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week | 03.16.2016
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Portland businessman Jordan Schnitzer owns a billion-dollar real estate portfolio. He has homes in San Francisco, Palm Springs...

By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 03.16.2016
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Scientists for the first time have generated a type of embryonic stem cell that carries a single copy...

By Timothy Caulfield, The Atlantic | 03.16.2016
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Personalized medicine—the idea that genetic testing can reveal a person’s unique risks for various illnesses, as well as...