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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 Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.25.2015
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Scientists in Boston have come up with a twist on an important method for “editing” genomes that could...

By Elizabeth Church, The Globe and Mail | 09.25.2015

It was a promise on a truly motherhood issue. In the spring of 2014, the Ontario Liberals, fighting to hold...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 09.25.2015
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How much do your eyes water when cutting onions? Does fresh cilantro taste like soap to you? Do...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 09.25.2015
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More and more groups are amassing computer server–busting amounts of human DNA. Science's informal survey found at...

By Dalton Conley, Nautilus | 09.24.2015
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A report from a future where genetic engineering has sabotaged society.

The not-so-young parents sat in the...

By Chelsea Leu, California Magazine | 09.24.2015
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Stephen Colbert’s assertion notwithstanding, none of us is color blind. Not even the blind, it turns out. That’s...

By Joe Shute, The Telegraph | 09.23.2015

When Daniel Tammet was three years old, he fell down the stairs of the terraced family home he shared with...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.23.2015
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One received a car, another money for college tuition, others cold, hard cash.

Most Canadian women who donate...