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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 Dominic Basulto, Washington Post | 08.11.2015
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By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Boston Review | 08.11.2015
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Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg likes to make faces. But she doesn’t paint or sculpt them, precisely. She doesn’t even...

By Joshua A. Krisch, Vocativ | 08.11.2015

Even as Google and Apple promise employees egg-freezing privileges, the statistics behind in-vitro fertilization remain sobering. 75 percent of...

By Linda Geddes, The Independent | 08.10.2015
Untitled Document Although she has two half-sisters from her dad’s previous marriage, there was nothing in Jess Pearce’s childhood to...
By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 08.10.2015

The association between a woman's age and her fertility never seems far from the news but recently there has been...

By Ben Fidler, Xconomy | 08.10.2015

To this point, the technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 has been a science project, a research tool with enormous potential—and significant...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 08.08.2015
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Mother Nature has always been life's master architect, working off genetic blueprints that are fine-tuned from one generation...

By Boen Wang, The Daily Collegian | 08.07.2015
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The lab is like many others. Located at the end of a long hall on the top floor...