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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 Denise Grady, The New York Times | 11.12.2015
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CLEVELAND — Six doctors swarmed around the body of the deceased organ donor and quickly started to operate....

By Chea Takihiro & Jonathan Cox, Khmer Times | 11.11.2015
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Fleeing strict new laws at home, surrogacy companies are moving their “wombs for rent” services from Thailand to...

By Carolyn Y. Johnson & Brady Dennis, The Washington Post | 11.11.2015
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For most of her life, Allison Corona lived in a world dimmed by bad genetic luck. A disease...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, The Verge | 11.11.2015
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Theranos isn’t alone in avoiding regulation using an easily exploited loophole — in fact, it’s just one among...

By Elizabeth Alter, The New York Times | 11.10.2015
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THERE are four locked doors guarding a specialized lab at the Harvard School...

By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 11.09.2015
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to privately held gene testing company DNA4Life over the...

By David Barrett, The Telegraph | 11.08.2015
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British police risk being overwhelmed with DNA and fingerprint requests from European Union countries if MPs decide to...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.06.2015
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An intense debate has flared over whether the federal government should fund research that creates partly human creatures...