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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 Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 04.14.2015
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The state of California is launching a US$3-million precision-medicine project. The effort, announced on 14 April, will draw...

By Judith Ireland, Sydney Morning Herald | 04.14.2015
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Australian officials could do almost nothing to stop Australian parents from abandoning their baby son, born through surrogacy...

By Russell Saunders, The Daily Beast | 04.14.2015
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Let’s say you have a whole lot of money.

Let’s say you have so much money that, even...

By Kari Paul, Motherboard | 04.14.2015
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A Craigslist ad thoug​ht to be covert advertising or “viral marketing for the upcoming Fantastic Four movie” is...

By Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post | 04.14.2015
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A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would require mandatory DNA testing on people convicted of eight misdemeanors...

By Michael Ollove, The Washington Post | 04.13.2015
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If in vitro fertilization still seems to be cutting-edge medicine, you haven’t been paying attention.

The first infant...

By Jason Silverstein, The Atlantic | 04.13.2015
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On April 24, 2003, shortly after the completion of the human genome project, its director Francis Collins and...

By Ainsley Newson and Stacy Carter, BioNews | 04.13.2015
In March, US company Sequenom revealed that its MaterniT21 non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) has detected potential cancer in some pregnant...