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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 Josh Dean, Bloomberg Businessweek | 10.22.2014
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Behind glass in a never-before-used operating room inside a just-built cabin at the end of a freshly paved...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 10.21.2014

A Polish man who was paralyzed from the chest down after a knife attack several years ago is now able...

By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review | 10.21.2014

The signs of the gap—really, a chasm—between the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon Valley. On...

By Elie Dolgin, Nature | 10.21.2014

Stacy Hodgkinson and Amy Lewin had the best of intentions when they enrolled the pregnant 15-year-old in their study. The...

By Sarah Knapton, Telegraph | 10.20.2014

Twins born through fertility treatment and their mothers are far more likely to suffer problems than single births, new studies...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 10.20.2014
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A segment of human intestine has been grown in laboratory mice for the first time as part of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.19.2014
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When Meg DeBoe decided to tap her Christmas fund to order a $99 consumer DNA test from 23andMe...

By Jemma Kennedy, The Guardian | 10.18.2014

Women, there’s a new perk in town. Last week, Apple joined ranks with Facebook in offering free egg-freezing to staff...