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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 Mic Wright, The Next Web | 08.25.2015
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Blah blah don’t be evil blah blah blah. At some point, Google’s unofficial motto became like the message printed...

By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.24.2015
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In the opening to We Have Never Been Modern (1993) sociologist Bruno Latour describes a newspaper report on...

By Carson Byrd, USAPP | 08.24.2015
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It has been 15 years since then President Bill Clinton and leading scientists of the Human Genome Project...

By Staff, Broadly [VICE] | 08.24.2015
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In 2014, tech companies like Apple and Facebook added egg freezing to their healthcare packages. The procedure has...

By Ellie Kincaid, Tech Insider | 08.24.2015
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Like many people of her generation, Miriam Zoll wanted to wait to have kids. She had seen headlines about 45-year-old...

By Tereza Hendl, The Conversation | 08.23.2015

Australian guidelines for the ethical use of IVF allow selecting a child’s sex for medical reasons. But draft guidelines...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 08.22.2015
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CLEVELAND — Opening a new front in the abortion wars, abortion opponents are pushing Ohio to make it...

By The Economist, The Economist [Cites CGS] | 08.22.2015

IN THE summer of 2005 Karen Aiach and her husband received heartbreaking news about their four-month-old daughter, Ornella: she had...