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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 10.29.2014
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For decades, biologists have studied gene function by inactivating the gene in question in mice and other lab...

By ETC Group, ETC Group | 10.29.2014
MONTREAL, 29 Oct. 2014–On the eve of the largest annual gathering of synthetic biologists in the world, ETC Group and...
By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies, Our Blog | 10.28.2014
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Apple recently announced it was joining Facebook in covering costs for female employees who opt to freeze their eggs for...

By Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Wired | 10.24.2014
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A self-proclaimed geek friend once described Silicon Valley as a place where instead of going to the movies...

By Karen Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 10.24.2014
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James Collins, a synthetic biologist at Boston University, says he’s been able to print the ingredients for simple...

By Youkyung Lee, Associated Press | 10.24.2014
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The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by...

By Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph | 10.23.2014

Foreigners will be allowed to undergo controversial IVF treatment creating 'three-parent babies' in Britain if Parliament green-lights the treatment, a...

By Marcy Darnovsky, RH Reality Check | 10.23.2014

News about Silicon Valley’s egg-freezing perk has ignited many much-needed conversations about the tech industry’s family-unfriendly workplaces and policies that...