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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 Dane Halpin & Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Bangkok Post [Thailand] | 01.10.2016
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The evidence comprised little more than a data table, printed on a single sheet of paper. To Jane...

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 01.10.2016
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What if a simple blood test could detect any cancer early, when it was still easy to treat...

By Brittany Malooly, VICE Broadly | 01.10.2016

The price for a single vial of sperm in the fertility market goes for anything between $370 to $890 dollars...

By Elizabeth Yuko, The Atlantic | 01.08.2016
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Assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, are more common in the U.S. than they’ve ever been: The Centers for...

By Angela Natividad, Adweek | 01.08.2016

People will do anything to protect a legacy. And Belgium is taking that to the next level.

The...

By Kate Tuttle, Salon | 01.07.2016
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Buck v. Bell”

“I don’t want to be...

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Zocalo Public Square | 01.06.2016
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Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws...

By Jerry Bowyer, Forbes | 01.06.2016
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Like me, you’ve probably noticed that people tend to think of math as morally neutral. There’s the world...