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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 Lauren Wilson, News.com.au | 09.01.2015
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The future of dozens of families has been thrown into limbo after Nepal followed India and Thailand and...

By Editorial, Nature | 09.01.2015
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When Stephen Damiani’s one-year-old son Massimo suddenly lost his ability to crawl and developed other problems in 2009...

By Arit Udoh, BioNews | 09.01.2015
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Access to IVF may serve as 'fertility insurance' for women, making them more inclined to delay motherhood and...

By Kevin Schultz, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.01.2015
A state agency kicked off one of the world’s largest stem cell banks Monday in an effort to bolster research...
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 09.01.2015
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After dozens of unsuccessful treatments, Eric Dishman started to suspect that his illness was due to something other...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.31.2015

Genetic counselor Emily Hardisty sat across from three salespeople from the San Diego biotech company Sequenom two weeks ago. The...

By Dhvani Mehta and Yashaswini Mittal, The Wire | 08.31.2015

On August 24, it was reported that the former Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, had written to the Prime Minister...

By Carina Storrs, CNN | 08.30.2015
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A person may not have to "see color" to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people...