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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 Penny Yi Wang, ABC News | 08.07.2015

Thailand, once a top choice for would-be parents around the world who were seeking a surrogate, has narrowed the...

By Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. & Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H., New England Journal of Medicine | 08.06.2015
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That clinical medicine has contributed enormously to our ability to treat and cure sick people is beyond contention...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 08.04.2015
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On an August morning in 2008, Tony Wyss-Coray sat in a conference room at the Veterans Affairs hospital...

By Devin Powell, Washington Post | 08.03.2015
Ethical and social concerns about modifying DNA include whether parents have a right to tweak the genetic makeup of their...
By Derek Ayeh, Voices in Bioethics | 08.03.2015

When confirmation was released that researchers from China had genetically modified human embryos for the first time ever, there was...

By Ruth Wood, The Telegraph | 08.03.2015

Crystal the chihuahua is a reminder to Mandy Bond of how she almost gave up on becoming a mother. She...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 08.02.2015
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A powerful new technique for generating “supercharged” genetically modified organisms that can spread rapidly in the wild has...

By Ipsita Chakravarty, Scroll.in | 08.02.2015

The advertisement was seeking a woman with a “high intelligence quotient, fair or wheatish complexion, between 22-26 yrs. Preferably B...