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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 Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.20.2014
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A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and founded on gratuitous assumptions. 

The...

By Corey G. Johnson, CFIR | 06.19.2014
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The California state auditor today blasted federal and state oversight of sterilization surgeries for female prison inmates, finding numerous illegal...

By Steven Rose, The Guardian | 06.19.2014
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Fantasies of human enhancement have a long history, from early myths about supernormal strength and eternal life to 20th-century...

By Health Canal, Health Canal | 06.18.2014

The approval of a new treatment method by which three parents will be able to beget a child is being...

By Amanda Marcotte, Slate | 06.18.2014
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Put this in the "can they even do that?" files. Jesse Lee Herald of Edinburg, Virginia, received an...

By Li Yan, Global Times | 06.17.2014
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Business is booming in the Chinese mainland's ovary egg donation black market where agencies advertise their underground services...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 06.16.2014
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When Jessica Kern gave evidence to lawmakers in Washington, DC, last summer opposing the legalization of surrogacy in...

By Swapna Majundar, Thomson Reuters Foundation | 06.16.2014
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When Yuma Sherpa told doctors at a private fertility clinic here that she wanted to back out, her...