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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 Alexandra Harney and Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 06.09.2015
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Years of pouring money into its laboratories, wooing scientists home from overseas and urging researchers to publish and...

By Margaret Somerville, The Globe and Mail | 06.08.2015
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The human germline is the genetic essence of human life. It’s the genes passed on from generation to...
By Michael Wells-Greco, BioNews | 06.08.2015
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On 21 May 2015 the Swiss Federal Court (1) refused to register a male couple - who are...

By Matthew Thomas, BioNews | 06.08.2015
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The Business of Genetic Ancestry

BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 26 May 2015

Presented by Dr Adam Rutherford...

By Anna Azvolinsky, The Scientist | 06.08.2015
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Most novel mutations in an individual are thought to originate in the germline. Other mutations, somatic mosaic mutations...

By Editorial, The Lancet | 06.06.2015
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Last week, the White House decreed that human germline gene editing in biomedical research is discontinued in the...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.06.2015
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The latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics examines the topic of new reproductive technologies and genetic...

By Jo Best, Tech Republic | 06.05.2015
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Dan Lane has always had a keen interest in the next big thing. He owned an early set...