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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 Jacqueline Nelson, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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Somewhere between calls to “break the glass ceiling” and the war cry to “have it all,” working women...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.07.2015
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A Nuffield Council review of the British Government’s ‘care.data’ scheme has found that the existing privacy framework needs...

By KQED, KQED Radio [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.06.2015

 

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After a parliamentary vote earlier this week, the United Kingdom is set to become...

By Cynthia Graber, The New Yorker | 02.05.2015
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Last Friday, in a speech at the White House, President Obama unveiled what he called his Precision Medicine...

By Taras K. Oleksyk and Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado, Scientific American | 02.05.2015

Disappointed by James Watson’s decision to sell his Nobel Prize medal, Lior Pachter, a computational biologist who works on...

By Tanya H. Lee, Indian Country | 02.05.2015

The sequencing of the human genome and the science that made that feat possible have led to some fascinating new...

By Alyona Minkovski, HuffPost Live | 02.04.2015
The U.K. has approved creating babies with the DNA of three different people. While many believe it could prevent serious...
By Gretchen Vogel and Erik Stokstad, Science | 02.03.2015
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The United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted overwhelmingly today to allow British researchers to pursue a new fertility...