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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 Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times | 01.20.2016
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For decades, the bronzes created by the artist Malvina Hoffman for the Field Museum’s “Races of Mankind” exhibit...

By Gabriela Gorbea, VICE News | 01.19.2016
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Geoff Moss thought he had found — in Mexico — the "ideal location" for his agency that offers childless...

By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph [UK] | 01.19.2016
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The end of the ‘test tube baby’ could be in sight after British doctors launched a new form...

By Colette Shade, VICE Broadly | 01.17.2016
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What will a young woman do for $8,000 dollars? Eight grand is the going rate on a healthy...

By Aubrey Sanders, BreakThru Radio | 01.16.2016
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One of the most profoundly consequential debates modern science has ever faced is unfolding at this very moment...

By Lindsey Hoshaw, KQED | 01.15.2016
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This isn’t an everyday patent dispute.

This is a battle for who invented the powerful gene-editing technique that...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 01.14.2016
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California’s ambitious, $18 million effort to develop -- in relatively short order -- a stem cell therapy for...