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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 Laurent Alexandre, World Crunch | 04.07.2015

PARIS — Half-animal, half-human? The astounding developments in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science (NBIC) are posing problems that...

By Patrick Tucker, The Atlantic | 04.07.2015

In June 2012, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin published a paper in the journal Nature about...

By Daniela Hernandez, The Huffington Post | 04.06.2015

In 1984, a genealogy geek named John Sittner published The Source, a book meant to unearth and analyze never-before-seen...

By Ashley Csanady, National Post | 04.06.2015

Scientists around the world are anticipating the results of a Chinese study that would mark the first time DNA in...

By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 04.04.2015
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Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city’s soaring skyline, Peter...

By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 04.03.2015
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For those unaware of how much biotechnology is changing the very nature of human identity, now is the...

By Jenny Rood, The Scientist | 04.03.2015
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On April 15, 2014, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded the first patent for use the...

By Bernadette Tansey, Xconomy | 04.02.2015
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Caribou Biosciences, one of the biotech startups working to advance a much-watched new technology for precise gene...