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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 Owen Bowcott, The Guardian | 05.18.2015

The failure by parents to register the majority of children born through surrogacy agreements has created “a ticking legal timebomb”...

By Olivia Gordon, The Telegraph | 05.18.2015

Joanna Rose’s father, if he is still alive, would be perfectly within his rights to refuse to have anything to...

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press | 05.18.2015

More than 170 clinics across the country are selling experimental stem cell procedures for dozens of diseases and conditions —...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 05.18.2015

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to...

By Anne Schiff, The Jerusalem Post | 05.17.2015
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Sometimes it takes a tragedy to draw public attention to otherwise unconsidered problems.

The recent earthquakes in Nepal...

By Editorial, The Washington Examiner | 05.15.2015

Television actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé are tussling over what should happen to embryos they created through in vitro...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 05.14.2015

WASHINGTON — The federal government opened the door to a new era of genetic medicine on Thursday by introducing a...

By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman, Vox | 05.13.2015
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In his book Derailed, about his fall from academic grace, the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel explained his...