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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 Hank Campbell, Science 2.0 | 03.11.2015
Untitled Document A decade ago there was a culture war surrounding human embryonic stem cells - people assumed it was...
By Marcin Goettig, Reuters [Poland] | 03.10.2015
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Poland's government approved a draft bill to regulate in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment on Tuesday, in a move aimed...

By Edward Hockings and Lewis Coyne, The Guardian | 03.10.2015
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With the UK launch of 23andMe’s home DNA testing kit, the legalisation of mitochondrial DNA transfer, and the...

By Govind Vijaykumar, The Asian Age | 03.08.2015
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Within a year, the world could see the first of what’s being described as the three-parent baby. And...

By Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post | 03.06.2015
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Mark Surrey, fertility specialist to the Kardashians, opens with the story of a 44-year-old lawyer who waited too...

By Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 03.06.2015
Untitled Document Online ads for genetic cancer tests that promise to identify the best treatment “to kill your cancer” and...
By Kevin Boehnke, Science | 03.06.2015
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Throughout my science education, I have dutifully memorized facts: the stages of photosynthesis, the enzymes involved in the...

By Virginia Hughes, BuzzFeed | 03.05.2015
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Last May, when she was 10 weeks pregnant, Eunice Lee took a blood test to screen for diseases...