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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 Ryan Clarke and James Hyun, Tech Crunch | 05.13.2015

[For full original article with diagrams and tables, see here.]

Editor’s note: Ryan Clarke is a biochemistry PhD candidate...

By Jeantine Lunshof, Nature World View | 05.12.2015

Gene editing is a hot topic following a flurry of interest in the use of CRISPR tools to modify human...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 05.11.2015

Call it a ‘gut print’. The collective DNA of the microbes that colonize a human body can uniquely identify someone...

By Nikhil Swaminathan, Aljazeera America | 05.11.2015
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In late January, President Barack Obama announced what some have called a moonshot.

The $215 million Precision Medicine...

By Dr Calum MacKellar, BioNews | 05.11.2015
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The short article by Robin Lovell-Badge entitled 'Editing human embryos' (see BioNews 799) addressing the work of...

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 05.09.2015

Will the University of California reap the financial rewards of CRISPR's commercial use, likely worth billions of dollars? That's the...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 05.08.2015

A new rumor is spreading that Apple may be leveraging its ubiquity to encourage iPhone owners to participate in DNA...

By Rafael Romo, CNN | 05.08.2015

(CNN)An American couple who say they have been stuck in Mexico for weeks because officials there won't provide a birth...