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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 Oscar Quine, The Independent | 04.26.2015

London – Police forces across the UK are testing technology that allows officers to analyse DNA samples in custody suites, amid...

By Society for Developmental Biology, Society for Developmental Biology | 04.24.2015

The Board of Directors of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) and the Editors of its official journal Developmental Biology...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 04.24.2015
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In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts...

By Jordan Smith, The Intercept | 04.24.2015

Last week, The Washington Post revealed that in 268 trials dating back to 1972, 26 out of 28 examiners within the FBI...

By Lauren F Friedman, Business Insider | 04.23.2015

News broke on Wednesday that a team of Chinese scientists had edited the genes of human embryos for the first...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 04.23.2015

For the first time, scientists have edited DNA in human embryos, a highly controversial step long considered off limits.

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By Maggie Fox, NBC News | 04.23.2015
Chinese scientists have caused an uproar by trying to permanently edit the DNA of human embryos — created genetic changes...
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 04.23.2015

Mothers may one day be able to prevent their children from inheriting mitochondrial defects. Therapies that modify diseased eggs are...