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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.13.2016
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LaQuenta Caldwell-Moody considered it improper when a pharmacy sales representative tried to take her teenage son, when he...

By Elena Kadvany, Palo Alto Weekly | 01.13.2016
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What began as one Jordan Middle School seventh-grader's research project on the questionable history of the school's namesake...

By Phys.org, Phys.org | 01.13.2016

Sperm that don't swim well rank high among the main causes of infertility. To give these cells a boost, women...

By Fiona MacRae, The Daily Mail [UK] | 01.13.2016
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Genetically-modified human embryos could be made in a British lab within months.

The fertility regulator will meet tomorrow...

By Andelka Phillips, The Conversation | 01.12.2016
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Getting your DNA sequenced is now so cheap and easy that you don’t need to see a medical...

By Lisa M. Krieger, Contra Costa Times | 01.11.2016
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BURLINGAME -- On the kitchen table of his cramped apartment, Josiah Zayner is performing the feat that is...

By Tina Vasquez, RH Reality Check | 01.11.2016
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California sexual and reproductive health organizations were dismayed to find that Gov. Jerry Brown’s $170.7 billion budget proposal...

By Natalie Morton & Sarah Bell, BBC News | 01.11.2016

The number of women using donated sperm to get pregnant is rising, but many find the cost of treatment at...