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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 Britt E. Erickson, Chemical & Engineering News | 06.29.2015
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A little more than a decade after scientists first unraveled the human genome, some researchers are trying to...

By Rebecca Carr, BioNews | 06.29.2015
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Last month, in a judgment that was hailed as the first of its kind, High Court judge Ms...

By Alice Maynard, BioNews | 06.29.2015

Untitled Document I served on the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) as a lay member from 2006 to 2012, and found...

By Douglas Quan, Montreal Gazette | 06.25.2015
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Biological clocks ticking, some women are approaching British Columbia’s family lawyers with a dilemma: They want to have a...

By Press Release, kaine.senate.gov | 06.25.2015
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Carper...

By John Lauerman and Caroline Chen, Bloomberg Businessweek | 06.25.2015
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Tracy Antonelli and her three daughters suffer from thalassemia, a blood disorder that saps their strength, leaves them...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 06.25.2015
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The US House of Representatives is wading into the debate over whether human embryos should be modified to...

By Natasha Gilbert, Nature News | 06.25.2015
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A US company is the first to face penalties under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), a law...