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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 Bridget Brennan, ABC [Australia] | 04.17.2015
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In a wide-ranging speech in Brisbane last night, Justice Diana Bryant told journalists that current laws were driving...

By Bridget Brennan, ABC [Australia] | 04.17.2015
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In a wide-ranging speech in Brisbane last night, Justice Diana Bryant told journalists that current laws were driving...

By John Drescher, News & Observer | 04.17.2015
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John Railey was part of a team of reporters at the Winston-Salem Journal who in 2002 revealed the...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.15.2015
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In a legal maneuver with billion-dollar implications, the University of California has asked the U.S. Patent & Trademark...

By Richard Harris, National Public Radio | 04.15.2015
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It's becoming routine for cancer doctors to order a detailed genetic test of a patient's tumor to help...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 04.15.2015
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The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace...

By Max Gorynski, Shout Out UK | 04.14.2015
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The need for control is as strong in humans as the need for love and the need for...

By Silvia Camporesi, The Huffington Post | 04.14.2015
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"What are the moral implications of genome editing?" is the question that has been posed by...