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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 Brooke Borel, The Guardian | 12.30.2015
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By Liu Jiaying (trans. Li Rongde), Caixin Online [China] | 12.29.2015
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The government will continue cracking down on surrogacy even though lawmakers recently decided not to pursue a legal...

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, ABC News | 12.28.2015
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When the state deemed Leighton Pang Kee ineligible for one of the most valuable benefits available to Native...

By Brad Bertrand, Nikkei Asian Review [Singapore] | 12.26.2015
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Sitting in the center of a queen-size bed, five-month-old Justin (not his real name) looks like a typical...

By David Lom and Eric Baculinao, NBC News | 12.26.2015
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The head of a Chinese firm that is building the world's biggest animal cloning factory has...

By Janet Phelan, Activist Post | 12.25.2015
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We knew it was coming to this. The GMO revolution wasn’t going to stop at our dinner table...

By Dr. Filippa Lentzos, PLOS Blogs | 12.24.2015
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Synthetic biology is swimming in defense dollars. The most recent figures available on US trends in synthetic biology...

By Caroline Chen and Doni Bloomfield, Bloomberg | 12.23.2015
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In a single year, Rodger Novak’s gene-editing startup raised $89 million in venture funding, got $105 million to...