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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 Rich Wordsworth, Motherboard | 09.29.2015

In 2002, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough, a deaf lesbian couple from America, made headlines when they chose to conceive...

By Cameron Scott, Healthline | 09.29.2015
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Hacking the human genome has long made for great science fiction theater because it has always seemed fantastically...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 09.29.2015
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Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques have produced an unexpected byproduct — tiny pigs that a leading Chinese genomics institute will...

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Hastings Center Report | 09.28.2015
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On April 3, 2015, a group of prominent biologists and ethicists called for a worldwide moratorium on human...

By J. Wesley Judd, Pacific Standard | 09.28.2015

Consensus is not a word used when talking about assisted reproductive technology, or ART, for short. In the past, we've reported...

By W. Carson Byrd & Matthew W. Hughey, Washington Post | 09.28.2015
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This month, Jennifer Cramblett lost her “wrongful birth” lawsuit, which centered on a troubling ideology that...

By Jim Brown, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 09.27.2015

If you're a would-be Canadian parent with a patriotic bent and you're looking for help conceiving, there could be cause...

By Kristina Davis, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 09.27.2015

SAN DIEGO — The fate of as many as 500,000 DNA samples collected from felony arrestees and stored in a...