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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 Alison Motluk, Canadian Medical Association Journal | 12.16.2015
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Not all Ontarians who are eligible for a funded cycle of in vitro fertilization (IVF) will necessarily get...

By Associated Press in Mexico City, The Guardian [UK] | 12.15.2015
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A Mexican state legislature has voted to close the door to foreign couples and gay men looking to...

By Rachel Emma Silverman, The Wall Street Journal | 12.15.2015
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Employers want workers to know what’s in their genes.

A handful of firms are offering employees free or...

Landscape photo shows an iceberg. Below the water, the iceberg continues to deepen.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The New Yorker | 12.14.2015

Specter highlights exciting developments in the field of gene editing, but he is too quick to dismiss the shadow side...

By Oliver Moody, The Times | 12.14.2015
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The Church of England could agree to the genetic modification of human embryos, its medical ethics adviser has...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post [Canada] | 12.13.2015
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Health Canada has made just two attempts to enforce its controversial fertility law since early 2014, mildly rebuking...

By Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 12.12.2015
Untitled DocumentInstitutional review boards (IRBs), designed to serve as gatekeepers protecting patients from unethical human research practices, are under...
By Robin Marantz Henig, National Geographic | 12.11.2015

Some people are taller than others. Others have wider hips, lighter hair, longer toes, or flatter feet. No one disputes...