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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 M.L. Nestel, The Daily Beast | 02.23.2015
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Hoan Nguyen dreamed of becoming a mom. But she had fertility issues, and so Nguyen began scouting for...

By Alison Lashwood, BioNews | 02.23.2015
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The 23andMe test and other similar direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests are likely here to stay. Those in favour...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 02.23.2015
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There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years...

By Françoise Baylis, Impact Ethics | 02.23.2015
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The United Kingdom’s House of Commons recently voted to amend the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 to...

By David Kravets, Ars Technica | 02.20.2015

Anybody who has watched a crime drama knows the trick. The cops need someone's DNA, but they don’t have a...

By BBC, BBC | 02.20.2015

Thailand has passed a law banning foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, after two high-profile cases sparked debate...

By Ricki Lewis, Medscsape | 02.20.2015
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On February 19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 02.20.2015
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Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict...