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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 Candice Marcus, ABC | 08.13.2014
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A High Court ruling that DNA evidence was not enough to convict a man of murder could have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.13.2014

No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself.

Or could they?

When someone commits suicide...

By The Guardian, The Guardian | 08.13.2014

Thailand's military government gave preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a...

By Nell GreenfieldBoyce, NPR | 08.13.2014

A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of...

By Council for Responsible Genetics, Council for Responsible Genetics | 08.12.2014

The current structure of biobanks in the United States is missing substantial federal and state policies to address and resolve people’s privacy...

By Vindu Goel, The New York Times | 08.12.2014

Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon...

By Jessica Cussins, CNBC | 08.11.2014

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As the genetically modified food wars wage on, another bombshell has been quietly waiting to...

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.09.2014

About 50 Australian couples' dreams of having surrogate children have been shattered after Thai authorities linked their Bangkok clinic with...