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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 Michelle Goldberg, Slate | 02.15.2016
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Last year, a 47-year-old California woman named Melissa Cook decided to become a commercial surrogate. Cook is a...

By Bryn Stole & Danielle Maddox Kinchen, The New Orleans Advocate | 02.13.2016
Untitled Document A dozen years ago, just after Derrick Todd Lee was arrested and tied to a string of killings...
By Alan Yuhas and Kamala Kelkar, The Guardian | 02.12.2016
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A senior geneticist and a bioethicist warned on Friday that they fear “rogue scientists” operating outside the bounds...

By Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times | 02.12.2016
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A California agency funded by taxpayers is considering whether it should support scientific research aimed at genetically modifying...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.12.2016
Untitled Document The Center for Genetics and Society, which has been monitoring human gene editing for the past few...
By Françoise Baylis and Janet Rossant, The Walrus | 02.12.2016

It reads like an all-caps typo from the technical manual that comes taped to the side of a new refrigerator. But CRISPR is...

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 02.12.2016
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The revolutionary gene-editing technology poised to reshape how researchers attack and prevent disease yesterday received a lukewarm reception...

By Editorial, The Boston Globe | 02.12.2016
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As interest in alternative medicines has risen, so has the number of clinics pushing the supposed benefits...