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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 Bradley J. Fikes, UT San Diego | 10.07.2014

More than ever before, stem cell therapies appear poised to transform medicine — potentially curing heart disease, diabetes and paralyzing...

By Louise Milligan, ABC | 10.06.2014

In August, Sydney-based biotech company Regeneus, which raised $12 million by listing on the stock market last year, put out...

By Dov Fox, The Huffington Post | 10.06.2014
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More than a million children in the U.S. each year are conceived with donated sperm or eggs. Sperm...

By Jonathan Petre and Stephen Adams, Mail on Sunday | 10.04.2014
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Legislation to allow the birth of babies with genes from three biological parents should be put on hold...

By James Gallagher, BBC News | 10.04.2014
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A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical...

By Joseph Brean, National Post | 10.03.2014
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When she was outed as a fraud the other day, Florida’s three-breasted woman revealed a shift in the...

By Joseph Brean, National Post | 10.03.2014
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When she was outed as a fraud the other day, Florida’s three-breasted woman revealed a shift in the...

By André Picard, The Globe and Mail | 10.02.2014
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A controversial California company is going to start selling genetic test kits in Canada, and provide the information...