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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 Jennifer J. Kulynych and Hank Greely, Slate | 12.30.2014
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Personalized medicine, the hoped-for use of the information in our genes to inform our medical care, may end...

By John Kass, Chicago Tribune | 12.27.2014
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Jayne and Jon Cornwill, an Australian couple, recently came to America with a bit of trouble.

The trouble...

By Clair Achmad, The Conversation | 12.25.2014
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This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 12.24.2014
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In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white.

The state’s Racial...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 12.24.2014
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Scientists have made primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs in a medical feat that could transform the...

By Darlena Cunha, The Atlantic | 12.22.2014
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When Rhyannon Morrigan and her husband Drew used an egg donor and surrogate to have their child at...

By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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A year after the US Food and Drug Administration urged 23andMe to stop the marketing of its personal...

By Mirah Riben, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1932), Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale, 1985), and Lois Lowry...