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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 Jeffrey Marlow, Wired | 03.30.2015
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Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has...

By David Ewing Duncan, The Daily Beast | 03.30.2015
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“We have within our grasp the technology to change evolution. This could change the course of biological life.”...

By Nils Hoppe, BioNews | 03.30.2015
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One of the legally and ethically problematic issues regularly debated in the context of biobanks and tissue repositories...

By Jeffrey Marlow, Wired | 03.30.2015
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Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has...

By Sheila Burke, Associated Press | 03.28.2015
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Nashville prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations at least four times in the past...

By C. Simone Fishburn, BioCentury | 03.26.2015
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Once CRISPR catapulted gene editing to the forefront of DNA-based technology, it was only a matter of time...

By Misti Ault Anderson, The blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 03.26.2015
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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today released Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of...

By Beverly Merz, Harvard Health Blog | 03.26.2015
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President Obama’s announcement of a Precision Medicine Initiative was one of the few items in this year’s State...