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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 Wendy Kramer, Huffington Post | 07.22.2015
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A cultural phenomenon is growing these days in the world of gamete donation. The voices of the donor-conceived...

By Caroline Chen, Bloomberg Businessweek | 07.21.2015
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Google Inc.’s Calico, a biotechnology firm created by the search-engine giant to study aging and related diseases, will...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 07.21.2015
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The clock is ticking for experts charged with designing a US government programme to collect genetic, physiological and...

By Charlotte Alter, Diane Tsai, & Francesca Trianni, Time | 07.16.2015
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Egg freezing has been hailed as a game-changer for women, an “insurance policy” to revitalize waning fertility, a...

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Nation | 07.16.2015

On April 18, scientists at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, published an article in the obscure open-access journal Protein...

By George Annas, Boston University Today | 07.16.2015
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The fertility industry is big business. There are more than 450 fertility clinics in the United States alone...

By Kate Yandell, The Scientist | 07.15.2015
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Scientists have used two methods to generate patient-specific pluripotent stem cells with normal mitochondria for people with defects...

By Susana Medeiros, RegBlog | 07.15.2015
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Scientists are working on synthetically designed microorganisms that may soon produce everything from the fuel in your gas...