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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 Kristine Mattis, Counterpunch | 10.05.2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto...
By Susan Donaldson James, NBC News | 10.04.2015
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John R. Brown had been on medication for depression and bipolar disorder since high school, but with personal...

By Rob Ferguson, The Star | 10.01.2015

After years of pressure, Ontario has agreed to help infertile women under 43 get pregnant by paying for in vitro...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2015

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The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation's sleek marble building is on the outskirts of Seoul...

By Lizzie Wade, Wired | 09.30.2015

When the geneticist Gonçalo Abecasis stood up in front of a group of scientists in 2007 and proposed sequencing 1,000...

By BBC, BBC | 09.30.2015

Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the UK's first 10 womb transplants, following the success of the procedure...

By Alexandra Ossola, Popular Science | 09.29.2015
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Yesterday, the Broad Institute Foundry, a synthetic biology laboratory at MIT, announced its new contract with DARPA. The...