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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 Nell Greenfieldboyce, National Public Radio | 01.26.2015
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When Amy Seitz got pregnant with her second child last year, she knew that being 35 years old...

By Judith Harvey, The Guardian | 01.25.2015
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A recent black-and-white documentary, Blood, about a mobile blood collection unit in rural Russia, shows scenes familiar...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 01.24.2015
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President Obama will seek hundreds of millions of dollars for a new initiative to develop medical treatments tailored...

By Richard Rubin, Bloomberg | 01.22.2015
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The U.S. Tax Court rejected a California woman’s attempt to avoid taxes on the $20,000 she received when...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 01.22.2015
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With the pipeline of traditional drugs drying up, researchers are increasingly attempting to customize treatments based on a...

By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 01.22.2015

Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from...

By Reuters staff, Scientific American | 01.22.2015

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese health authorities on Wednesday described the gender imbalance among newborns as "the most serious and prolonged"...

By Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 01.21.2015
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The UK Government and Association of British Insurers (ABI) have agreed to extend their voluntary moratorium on the...