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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 Meredith Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune | 10.01.2014

A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from...

By Meghann Evans, Winston-Salem Journal | 10.01.2014

Elaine Riddick got a call this week that had been more than 40 years in the making.

Riddick, a victim...

By Daniel Cossins, The Scientist | 10.01.2014

Sometimes even the best-known stories have hidden subplots. This January, Nature published two papers describing an astonishing new way...

By Tim Cushing, TechDirt | 09.30.2014
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The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database has been discussed here several times, thanks to its "expeditious" blend...

By Editorial, The Boston Globe | 09.30.2014
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THE ERA OF direct-to-consumer genetic testing means that anyone can pay $99, spit into a plastic vial, and...

By Robin Marantz Henig, Slate | 09.30.2014
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The cocktail party at the trendy Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo could have been a networking event for...

By Chad Terhune, Noam N. Levey, Sandra Poindexter, Los Angeles Times | 09.30.2014
Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5...
By Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week | 09.30.2014

It's hard to shake the feeling that eugenics can make a comeback. Or that it never really left us.

When...