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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 Sara Reardon, Nature | 02.29.2016

“Welcome back, you two,” says assistant FBI director to Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. He unlocks the door to Mulder’s...

By Mary Ann Mason, Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.29.2016

This past fall, I gave a talk on work-and-family issues to a class of female students in the M.B.A. program...

By John Farrell, Forbes | 02.28.2016
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Paul Knoepfler is not a scientist given to alarmism, but it’s pretty clear from his informative new book...

By Catherine Bennett, The Guardian | 02.27.2016
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Along with thousands of babies, one of the undoubted benefits of assisted reproductive technology, or ART, has been...

By All Things Considered, NPR, All Things Considered, NPR | 02.26.2016

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By Sarah Zhang, Wired | 02.26.2016
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You could say that Illumina is to DNA sequencing is what Google is to Internet search, but that...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.26.2016
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Marina Stajic worked for nearly three decades as director of the forensic toxicology lab at the medical examiner’s...

By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 02.26.2016
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The Cleveland Clinic says it has performed the first uterus transplant in the United States.

This opens up...