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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 Susan Gilbert, Bioethics Forum The Hastings Center | 10.28.2015
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Biomedical researchers are increasingly looking to Silicon Valley for access to human subjects, and Silicon Valley is looking...

By Cynthia M. Cale, Nature | 10.28.2015
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Earlier this month, the Texas Forensic Science Commission raised concerns about the accuracy of the statistical interpretation of...

By Harriet Meyer, The Guardian | 10.24.2015
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Women in their late 30s and in their 40s are being given false hope that freezing their eggs...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 10.23.2015
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The Akimel O’odham (Pima), a group of Native Americans from Arizona, have one of the highest rates of...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.21.2015
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The genetic testing company 23andMe became a Silicon Valley sensation by providing consumers with health and ancestry information...

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 10.21.2015
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Individuals hoping to learn about their lineage or see how closely related they are to Neanderthals aren’t the...

By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 10.20.2015
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The consumer genome. You’ll hear that phrase enough the next couple years that it will gain both the...

By Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Nature News | 10.20.2015
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The sun has been pale for months here in Sumatra and the skies are grey all day —...