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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 Theodore Decker, The Columbus Dispatch | 11.02.2014
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When DNA evidence began appearing in U.S. courtrooms in the late 1980s, it was heralded as the greatest...

By Katie Stoll, The DNA Exchange | 11.02.2014
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At the recent National Society of Genetic Counselors Annual Education Conference in New Orleans, a presentation raised some...

By Josephine Johnston and Miriam Zoll, New Republic | 11.01.2014
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When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg...

By Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review | 10.31.2014
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This week Google described its ambitious plan to use magnetic nanoparticles circulating through the blood to detect and...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.31.2014
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The thorny and unresolved question of whether life itself can be patented may come again before the U.S...

By Eric Mennel, NPR | 10.31.2014
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Debra Blackmon was about to turn 14 in January 1972, when two social workers came to her home...

By Glenn Ashton, AllAfrica | 10.30.2014
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Synthetic food has long been the subject of speculative fiction, from Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" where poor...

By Chris O'Brien, Venture Beat | 10.29.2014
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VIENNA, Austria — Say this for Austen Heinz: His vision for the future will either thrill you or...