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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 Diana Kwon, Scientific American | 08.21.2015

Twelve years ago, members of the Havasupai Tribe entered into a legal battle with Arizona State University, over the ways...

By Matthew W. Hughey, The Huffington Post | 08.20.2015
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From 22-25 August, sociologists from around the nation and world will descend upon the Windy City of Chicago...

By Selina Lum, The Straits Times [Singapore] | 08.20.2015

The "difficult" issue of whether the mother of a baby conceived in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) sperm mix-up can claim...

By Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun | 08.19.2015
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he College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. is grappling with regulatory and accreditation issues for a private...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.19.2015
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The CEO of the world’s leading DNA sequencing company says he knows how to finally get consumers interested...

By Editorial, Nature | 08.18.2015
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Science is not just for scientists these days. Going on a scuba-diving holiday this summer? Share the temperature...

By Kevin Loria, Tech Insider | 08.17.2015
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Genetics has advanced to the point that we can sequence a person's genome, outlining their entire genetic...

By Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Journal | 08.17.2015
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About one out of five couples who come to HRC Fertility, a network of fertility clinics in Southern...