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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 Vidya Venkat, The Hindu | 08.16.2015
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This week, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) uploaded a slightly modified draft of the Human DNA Profiling Bill...

By Patrice Wendling, Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network | 08.14.2015
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Fertility clinics are quick to tout their success rates to attract patients, but are they doing enough to...

By Margo Kaplan, The Washington Post | 08.14.2015
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Last month, my husband and I signed forms donating an embryo we had conceived to medical research. Meanwhile...

By CTK, Prague Daily Monitor | 08.13.2015
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Prague, Aug 12 (CTK) - The Czech Republic has the first case of an infant who was born...

By Kevin Loria, Business Insider [Australia] | 08.13.2015

The real reason that we’ve never cloned a human, according to George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University, is...

By Margaret Farenger, The Detroit News | 08.13.2015
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Last year, The Detroit News covered a disturbing story of health inequity. For children, Detroit is the deadliest...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.12.2015
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With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. researchers have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.11.2015
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The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf...