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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 Jeff Bercovici, Inc | 11.21.2014
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When I wrote earlier this week about a new probiotic supplement called Sweet Peach engineered to make women's...

By Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast | 11.20.2014
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In 2011, Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” tried and failed to become the modern day equivalent to Valentino’s...

By Shane Bauer, Mother Jones | 11.20.2014
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Robert Schueren shook my hand firmly, handed me his business card, and flipped it over, revealing a short...

By RT, Russia Today | 11.19.2014

MPs from the populist nationalist party LDPR have prepared and drafted a motion requiring universal fingerprinting and DNA profiling of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.19.2014
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Ten years ago, scientists discovered that some people are naturally missing working copies of a gene known as...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 11.19.2014
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Hiding negative results and harmful side effects that occur in clinical trials would become harder in the United...

By William Wolfe-Wylie, Canada.com | 11.18.2014
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Even a decade ago, the idea of genetic discrimination sounded like science fiction. Today, it’s a reality Canadian law...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 11.18.2014
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Geneticists have a dirty little secret. More than a decade after the official completion of the Human Genome...