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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 Amrit Dhillon, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2015
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Two years after it was first mooted, India is close to finalising a draft bill to regulate the...

By Philippe Sotto, Time | 07.03.2015
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France’s highest court has granted legal recognition to surrogate children, in a major turnaround that will make their...

By Neetu Chandra Sharma, India Today | 07.03.2015
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A bunch of 22 pregnant women seems anxiously waiting to deliver, though without any other emotion attached to...

By Betty Rollin, KQED Religion & Ethics Newsweekly | 07.02.2015


A promising new medical technology has the potential to cure many genetic diseases by deleting or replacing defective...

By Anna Nowogrodzki, MIT Technology Review | 07.02.2015
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For 51 years, newborn babies have gotten a heel-prick test in which their blood is screened for dozens...

By Editorial, Nature | 07.01.2015
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The revelation in April that scientists had edited the genome of a human embryo — an inevitable development...

By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian | 06.30.2015
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The governor has signed a bill that would expand access to DNA testing for people hoping to prove...

By Sarah Dingle, Daily Life [Australia] | 06.30.2015
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Something happened over the weekend in Melbourne which has never happened anywhere before in the world. This is the future...