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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 Gretchen Vogel, Science | 09.08.2015
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The European Parliament today voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals as well as the sale...

By Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post | 09.08.2015
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In April 2015, a paper by Chinese scientists about their attempts to edit the DNA of a human...

By ABC, ABC Australia | 09.06.2015

It’s the fastest growing dimension of the multi-billion dollar fertility industry. Women in the 20s, 30s and 40s choosing to...

By Mark Lawrence Schrad, New York Times | 09.04.2015
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Villanova, Pa. — It was the most heart-wrenching moment of our lives, and all I could do was...

By Dawn Field, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.03.2015
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DNA testing and genomics is now so prevalent there are national genotyping platforms. Iceland became the first country...

By Claire Lee, The Korea Herald | 09.02.2015

South Korea’s Health Ministry is revising its guidelines for in vitro fertilization, discouraging medical professionals from transferring more than three...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 09.02.2015
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Britain may need to change its IVF laws to allow the genetic modification of human embryos so that...

By Chris Arsenault, Reuters | 09.01.2015

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coercive sterilization of indigenous women in Canadian health centers during the 1970s was more...