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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 Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.05.2015

Of all the rumors ever to swirl around the world’s most valuable company, this may be the first that could...

By BBC, BBC | 05.04.2015

Two trials of gene therapy on an inherited form of blindness in children have shown some patients' eyesight can be...

By Joseph Walker, Wall Street Journal | 05.03.2015
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Myriad Genetics Inc. used a patent-protected monopoly to become one of the most successful and controversial DNA testing...

By Leigh Turner, Trends in Molecular Medicine | 05.01.2015
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Clinics advertising adipose-derived autologous ‘stem cell treatments’ are proliferating across the USA. The rapid spread of businesses promoting...

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 05.01.2015
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The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and...

By UCA News, UCA News | 05.01.2015

China on Friday announced its latest crackdown on prenatal gender exams and illegal abortions despite further progress in narrowing the...

By Robert King, Washington Examiner | 04.30.2015
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Science is closer to creating genetically engineered human beings, and the advances in technology are sparking ethical arguments...

By Bioentrepreneur, Nature News Blog | 04.30.2015
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The organizers of a recent meeting in Napa, California, to consider the broad societal implications of clustered, regularly...