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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 Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | 07.10.2014

OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog is urging insurance companies and others to stop asking for access to the results of existing genetic...
By Dan Koboldt, MassGenomics | 07.10.2014

I first started MassGenomics in the early days of next-gen sequencing, when Illumina was called “Solexa” and came in fragment-end...

By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy | 07.10.2014
In every one of the dozens of bioterrorism meetings I have attended over the last three decades, experts have stated...
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 07.10.2014
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Starving a pregnant mouse can cause changes in the sperm of her sons that apparently warp the health...

By David Dobbs, The New York Times | 07.10.2014
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In his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came...

By Mitchel L. Zoler, Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network | 07.08.2014
MUNICH – Women pregnant with an embryo produced by in vitro fertilization of a donated egg developed gestational hypertension at...
By Erika Check-Hayden, Nature News | 07.08.2014
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Guidelines that forbid patents on a wide array of natural products, phenomena and principles have many in the...

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian | 07.08.2014
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He was looking quite lost. An eminent scientist and UN delegate was stumbling over the meaning of a...