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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 Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 09.25.2014

Science writer David Dobbs has definitively described the voracious appetite of the "selfish gene" meme, pointing out that the notion...

By News Medical, News Medical | 09.25.2014

A clinical trial led by UC San Francisco has found that when pregnant women are educated about their choices on...

By Donald G. McNeil, The New York Times | 09.24.2014
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The Obama administration on Wednesday issued new guidelines intended to strengthen the oversight of federally funded biology research...

By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 09.24.2014

The perseverance and scientific innovation of Dr. Mary Claire King, the geneticist whose efforts to identify the BRCA genes were...

By David Weisbrot, The Age | 09.23.2014
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Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie recently created controversy by claiming in her first speech to Parliament that...

By Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov | 09.23.2014
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The FBI is preparing to accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for the government's massive new biometric identification database.

Developers...

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 09.23.2014
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Criminals including murderers and rapists could attempt to have their convictions overturned after the Home Office admitted that...

By Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2014
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An illicit surrogacy trade is burgeoning in the Chinese capital Beijing, where would-be parents can pay surrogate mothers...