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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 Beth Greenfield, Yahoo! Health | 08.19.2014
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When news broke earlier this month about baby Gammy — the newborn with Down syndrome who was left...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 08.18.2014

The National Science Foundation's (NSF’s) role in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is starting to take...

By UN Women, UN Women | 08.18.2014

New Delhi, July 22, 2014 – The sharply declining child sex ratio in India has reached emergency proportions and urgent...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 08.16.2014
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Australian law could be revised to allow more than two parents, if recommendations in a major report are...

By Sarah Dingle, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.16.2014

The discovery in her late 20s that she was conceived using a sperm donor was a huge shock to Sarah...

By Theodora Ross, The New York Times | 08.16.2014

DALLAS — ON Aug. 6, researchers announced in The New England Journal of Medicine that they had found that mutations...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 08.13.2014

Fashionable New York professional women gathered at a first-of-its-kind “egg-freezing party” this week — where they sipped champagne while learning...

By Sarah S. Richardson, Cynthia R. Daniels, Matthew W. Gillman, Janet Golden, Rebecca Kukla, Christopher Kuzawa & Janet Rich-Edwards, Nature | 08.13.2014

From folk medicine to popular culture, there is an abiding fascination with how the experiences of pregnant women imprint on...