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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 Farai Chideya, FiveThirtyEight | 01.25.2016
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When is $100 million not $100 million? When it’s a proxy, maybe even something akin to a bet...

By Sam Wong, New Scientist | 01.25.2016
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It’s no carbon copy. Macaque monkeys in Shanghai have been genetically engineered to display autism-like behaviour. Compared with...

By VNS, Viet Nam News | 01.22.2016
HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam's first surrogate baby was born this morning at the Ha Noi-based Central Maternity Hospital...
By Trudy Ring, The Advocate | 01.22.2016
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As Italy’s Parliament prepares to debate a civil unions bill, some lawmakers have proposed an amendment punishing couples...

By Sarah Sloat, Inverse | 01.21.2016
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At a 2001 talk in Berlin, transhumanist and Oxford academic Anders Sandberg addressed the crowd. “I am hoping...

By Sonali Kolkhatkar, TruthDig | 01.21.2016
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A new documentary airing soon on PBS covers a grisly era of California history—the forced sterilization of untold...

By Christine Aicardi, Maria Damjanovicova, Lorenzo Del Savio, Federica Lucivero, Maru Mormina, Maartje Niezen & Barbara Prainsack, The Hastings Center Report | 01.20.2016
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Editor’s note: This essay responds to an invitation (issued here and here) to submit commentaries on the...

By S.P. Sullivan, NJ | 01.20.2016
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TRENTON — People convicted of many disorderly persons offenses in New Jersey will have their DNA added to...