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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 David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.03.2014
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It seemed almost too good to be true — and it was. Two papers1, 2 that...

By Olga Khazan, The Atlantic | 07.03.2014
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ASPEN, Colo.—A new type of in-vitro fertilization procedure allows doctors to transfer the mitochondrial DNA from one woman...

By Steve Rendall, FAIR | 07.02.2014
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Nicholas Wade was a leading New York Times science writer for three decades. He left the paper weeks...

By The Aspen Institute, The Aspen Institute [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.02.2014

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The discussion of "designer babies" often revolves around gender or hair color, but the...

By Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible Genetics Blog | 07.02.2014
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As genetic testing and genetic information become increasingly available, it is critical that employers have a full understanding...

By Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph | 07.01.2014
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Women who become pregnant using donated eggs have at least three times the risk of developing serious complications...

By Terry Barnes, The Age | 07.01.2014
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Doing what comes naturally does indeed come naturally to most of us. But, for the one in six...

By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 06.30.2014
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About four years ago, Jay Tischfield, the director of RUDCR Infinite Biologics, a long-standing biorepository at Rutgers...