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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 Thaddeus Pope, Medical Futility Blog | 08.09.2014
Several Taiwanese researchers have just published a new study:  "Over-Optimistic Portrayal of Life-Supporting Treatments in Newspapers and on the Internet...
By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 08.08.2014

The notoriety of the Tuskegee syphilis study is unparalleled in the field of bioethics. Last week marked the 42nd anniversary...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 08.08.2014
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More than 130 leading population geneticists have condemned a book arguing that genetic variation between human populations could...

By Ian Birrell, The Guardian | 08.07.2014

I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed. The happy family lunch, then...

By Grant Peck and Kriten Gelineau, AP | 08.07.2014
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For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realized in places like...

By Elie Dolgin, Nature Medicine | 08.06.2014
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Unregulated stem cell clinics are proliferating throughout the US. A case in point is the Cell Surgical Network...

By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times | 08.06.2014
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Mutations in a gene called PALB2 raise the risk of breast cancer in women by almost as much...

By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times | 08.05.2014
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Two American aid workers were gravely ill, fighting to survive infection with the deadly Ebola virus. A San...