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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 Ian Sample, The Guardian | 10.15.2015
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An inexpensive handheld device that can read strands of DNA has been hailed as revolutionary by scientists who...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2015
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Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA?

One Seattle-area...

By Editorial, Nature News | 10.14.2015
Untitled Document In 1975, some 140 scientists met at the Asilomar resort on California’s rocky Monterey Peninsula to discuss the...
By Geha Nath Khanal, Kathmandu Post | 10.13.2015
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Abortion services were legalised in Nepal in September 2002 after much research, advocacy and lobbying at the local...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 10.13.2015
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They are meeting in China; they are meeting in the United Kingdom; and they met in the United...

By Anna Salleh, ABC Science | 10.13.2015
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The very real possibility of creating embryos from stem cells raises ethical issues that need to be debated...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, The Verge | 10.12.2015
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Ancestry.com, a company that's all about the past, wants to tell you about your medical future. The amateur...

By James Gallagher, BBC | 10.12.2015
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The first clinical trial injecting foetal stem cells into babies still in the womb has been announced.

It...