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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 Frederik Joelving, Reuters | 03.02.2015

(Reuters Health) - Renting out their wombs may ease financial problems for poor women in India, but new research...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 03.02.2015

A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately...

By Nick Stockton, Wired | 03.02.2015

For the last week, an Italian neurosurgeon has been executing a full-blown media offensive, talking up his plan to stitch...

By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 03.02.2015

Many of us would be delighted to contribute to medical advances. But handing over reams of our genetic, health and...

By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 03.02.2015
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You may have come across the story. 'Teenagers more likely to pass on genetic mutations to children,' reported...

By David Kravets, Ars Technica | 03.02.2015
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The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the conviction of a rapist whose prosecution rested on DNA swiped...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 03.01.2015
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Barely a week goes by without some dispiriting tale of racism seeping into the public consciousness: the endless...

By Stephanie Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.28.2015

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Wojcicki (pronounced wo-JIT-ski) made it her mission...