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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 Louise Milligan, ABC | 08.25.2014
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CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: It's perfectly rational for someone who is desperately ill...
By Peter Ubel, Forbes | 08.25.2014

The first time scientists sequenced a person’s entire genome, it took more than a decade and cost hundreds of millions...

By Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian | 08.23.2014
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Interpol has launched an investigation into an alleged "baby factory" after it emerged that a Japanese businessman had...

By Howard Brody, Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma | 08.23.2014

Jack E. James, who appears to hail from either Reykjavik University in Iceland or the National University of Ireland in...

By The Australian, The Australian | 08.21.2014

THE state government says its world-first legislation will balance the rights of donors with those of donor-conceived people who wish...

By Mary Papenfuss, Reuters | 08.20.2014

Birth certificates in California would be changed to more accurately reflect families in which parents are of the same gender...

By William P. Hanage, Nature | 08.20.2014

Explorations of how the microscopic communities that inhabit the human body might contribute to health or disease have moved from...

By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | 08.20.2014
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“I once had a very good professor who gave me very bad advice,” UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster...