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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 Michael Cook, BioEdge | 06.13.2015
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The dominant view of bioethics frames issues in terms of autonomy and individual rights. A retrospective in the...

By Andrew Chung, Reuters | 06.12.2015
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A U.S. appeals court said on Friday that the discovery of a new form of prenatal testing that...

By MetroNews, MetroNews [Canada] | 06.12.2015

It was a bittersweet day for forensic science in 1998, when retired Quebec Court Justice Fred Kaufman released his report...

By Ari Shapiro, NPR | 06.11.2015
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In the U.S., surrogate parenting is widely accepted. Although no official figures exist, experts believe perhaps a thousand...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.11.2015
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California’s $3 billion stem cell agency has called a high-level meeting for next fall to examine a "red-hot"...
By Maddie Stone, Gizmodo | 06.10.2015
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Twenty five years ago, Michael Crichton captured our imaginations with the crazy idea that scientists might one day...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 06.10.2015
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When Geoffrey Ling talks about the future of technology, his ideas go flying around the room like a...

By Loretta Houlahan, The Age [Australia] | 06.10.2015
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In a departure  from the usual IVF miracle baby stories, much attention has been devoted recently to IVF...