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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 Erin E. Murphy, The Daily Beast | 10.07.2015
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Plenty of things can go wrong in DNA testing in a run-of-the-mill case. Problems with interpreting the sample...

By Michael Slezak, New Scientist | 10.07.2015
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Your genes are no longer patentable in Australia. The country’s highest court found unanimously that two previous Australian...

By Staff, GenomeWeb | 10.06.2015
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's International Bioethics Committee called for a moratorium on germline genome...

By Meagan Flynn, Houston Press | 10.05.2015
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Five days after a Houston woman was raped by two men, she was driving down the street when...

By Eliza Barclay, NPR | 10.05.2015

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Women concerned about their fertility can use a test to help decide whether they...

By Laurie Zoloth, Cosmos Magazine | 10.05.2015
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Super crops and healthy productive farm animals; mosquito populations controlled without pesticides; a cure for cancer … This...

By Rachael Rettner, Live Science | 10.05.2015
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Ten women in the United Kingdom may undergo womb transplants as part of an upcoming study, but the...