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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 06.18.2015
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The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 06.17.2015
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After years of infertility, Angel and Jeff Watts found a young egg donor to help them have a...

By Karthika Muthukumaraswamy, The Huffington Post | 06.16.2015
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Up until recently, those in the technology industry and those conducting genomic research would have been considered strange...

By Renate Lindeman, Washington Post | 06.16.2015
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Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words “Down syndrome,” and my world collapsed...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 06.15.2015

More than a decade after a young man committed suicide during a psychiatric clinical trial at the University of Minnesota—and...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 06.15.2015
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The crimes and misdemeanors of science used to be handled mostly in-house, with a private word at the...

By Jeannie Wurz, SwissInfo [Switzerland] | 06.14.2015
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About 62% (61.9%) of Swiss voters have said yes to genetic screening of embryos before implantation in a...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 06.14.2015

STANFORD -- In the 1990s, Stanford's Irv Weissman created a unique way to grow and deliver blood stem cells to...