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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 Cecilia Okoth, New Vision | 09.02.2014

Imagine a woman desperately trying to get pregnant, but so far every attempt is unsuccessful. Would you be brave enough...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.02.2014
Four years ago, Scott Fahrenkrug saw an ABC News segment about the dehorning of dairy cows, a painful procedure that...
By Joanna Glasner, Reuters | 09.02.2014
Synthetic biology, which uses engineered gene sequences to create new biological systems and devices, used to be a subject for...
By The Times News, The Times News | 09.01.2014

It’s hard to blame Elnora Mills for not feeling terribly grateful. Decades after being forcibly sterilized under the state eugenics...

By Press Association, Press Association | 09.01.2014

Britain risks being considered a "rogue state" if it pushes ahead with developing "genetically modified people", MPs were told.

Conservative...

By Richard Van Noorden, Nature News | 09.01.2014

Scientists who work on genomics and are funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) must post their data...

By Russia Today, Russia Today | 09.01.2014

Upon meeting a 28,000-year-old mammoth mummy in a museum in the Russian Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin wondered if...

By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 08.31.2014
People coming to the zoo to see the last passenger pigeon were disappointed by the bird, which barely budged off...