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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 Ava Kofman, New Republic | 02.24.2016
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Your DNA can now be read in less time than it would take to wait at a typical...

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet | 02.24.2016
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It is hard to believe only four senators opposed the confirmation of Robert Califf, who was approved today...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 02.23.2016
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Ruthie Weiss’s basketball team seemed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss. But even as she...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.23.2016
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New gene editing technologies like the CRISPR-Cas9 technique hold great promise for medicine and the biological sciences. Some...

By Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News | 02.23.2016

U.S. companies racing to develop a promising gene editing technology are up against a formidable competitor -- the Chinese government.

China...

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 02.23.2016
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Chadam v. PAUSD, as previously covered on Genomics Law Report, is a case in which parents...

By Danielle Venton, KQED Science | 02.22.2016
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When you hear “gene editing,” do you think cancer cures? Designer babies? What about new fuel sources or drought-tolerant...

By Robert Gebelhoff, The Washington Post | 02.22.2016
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For a half-century, the ethics of human genetic engineering have been discussed in the abstract. Because the tools...