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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 Alex Lash, Xconomy | 01.04.2016
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The fight to determine who invented fundamental parts of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology appears to be headed...

By Anna Azvolinsky, The Scientist | 01.04.2016
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Despite a push for transparency in science, full data disclosure may be close to non-existent among published studies...

By Vandy Muong & Will Jackson, The Phnom Penh Post [Cambodia] | 01.02.2016
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Any day now, Cambodia’s first baby conceived in a test tube and implanted in a rented womb will...

By Carl Elliott, Hastings Center Report | 01.01.2016
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Several years ago, the University of Minnesota hosted a lecture by Alan Milstein, a Philadelphia attorney specializing in...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science/AAAS | 12.31.2015
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The red-hot genome editing tool known as CRISPR has scored another achievement: Researchers have used it to treat...

By Ari Ne'eman, The Guardian | 12.30.2015
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Britain’s largest sperm bank has a policy of turning away autistic donors and those diagnosed with other neurological...

By Bianca Bruno, Courthouse News Service | 12.30.2015

Untitled DocumentA San Diego-based medical diagnostics laboratory paid over $4 million to settle claims it gave kickbacks to physicians...

By Erin McKelle Fischer, Bustle | 12.30.2015
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For couples struggling with fertility, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, has become an increasingly popular choice to facilitate...