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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 David Wagner, KPBS | 11.24.2015
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A select group of blood donors at this year's Chargers Blood Drive gave one extra tube of blood...

By Yasmin Tayag, Inverse | 11.23.2015
When Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca premiered in 1997, the chances that society could adopt a genome-driven New World Order were still...
By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 11.23.2015
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WASHINGTON — Inaccurate and unreliable medical tests are prompting abortions, promoting unnecessary surgeries, putting tens of thousands of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.23.2015
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The students in Anthony James’s basement insectary at the University of California, Irvine, knew they’d broken the laws...

By Debora Spar, Fortune | 11.21.2015
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There’s something funny about the U.S. market for eggs. No, not the kind that spring from chickens and...

By Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 11.20.2015
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DNA can tell us all kinds of things.

Genetic information can be used to uniquely identify a specific...

By Stephanie Strom, The New York Times | 11.20.2015
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Lost in the news about the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of genetically engineered salmon on Thursday...

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 11.19.2015
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On a warm September afternoon on the verdant campus of Long Island's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an elite...