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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 Editorial, Charlotte Observer | 06.29.2014
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Today, North Carolina moves closer to shutting the door on one of the state’s more shameful episodes. June...

By Hank Greely, Law and Biosciences Blog | 06.27.2014
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Would you want to know the date and time of your death? Life-Line, the first published fiction...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.27.2014
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“Selling Stem Cells Honestly” is the headline this week over at the Biopolitical Times, which also says...
By Kim Tingley, New York Times Magazine | 06.27.2014
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In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named...

By Jeffrey Shuren, FDA Voice | 06.26.2014
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We’ve come to recognize that almost every disease has a genetic component, and many consumers now are eager...

By RFI, RFI | 06.26.2014

France has the right to ban surrogate parenthood but not to refuse granting legal to parent-child relationships of children born...

By Jerome Batley jr, Associated Press | 06.26.2014
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In 1948, as Naomi Schenck was rushed into a North Carolina operating room because she was having a...

By J.D. Tuccille, Reason | 06.26.2014
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The FBI's facial recognition database, into which it wants to put 52 million of our mugs by...