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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 Katie Worth, PBS Frontline | 10.19.2015
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When Muna Guled, her husband and youngest daughter were granted refugee status in America two-and-a-half years ago, their...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.19.2015
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Man’s best friend is now his newest genetic engineering project.

Scientists in China say they are the first...

By Craig Klugman, Bioethics.net | 10.16.2015
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During a periodic training on the university’s harassment policies today, I learned that my institution has added “genetic...

By Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science | 10.16.2015
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The story of filmmaker Michael Usry’s arrest seems like it could have come straight from an episode of...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 10.16.2015
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On their websites, next to glossy pictures of babies, some fertility clinics and egg-donor agencies refer to eggs...

By Mirah Riben, HuffPost Blog | 10.15.2015
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"Give me children, or else I die. Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 10.15.2015
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So you’ve made a new product by genetically engineering a living organism, and are eager to sell it...

By The Economic Times, The Economic Times | 10.15.2015

NEW DELHI: A blanket ban may be imposed soon on NRIs, PIOs and foreigners having children through surrogacy in India...