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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 Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Verge | 06.12.2014
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For more than a decade, scientists have been developing a fertility technique that involves combining DNA from three...

By Loretta Ross, RH Reality Check | 06.12.2014
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I was sterilized in 1976 when I was 23 years old. My paternalistic doctor visited me the day...

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 06.11.2014
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A Canadian court made headlines this month when it decided, as a preliminary matter, that human tissue removed...

By Kayt Sukel, BioTechniques | 06.11.2014
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Open any basic biology textbook and you’ll find a similar description of mitochondria, the small ovoid organelles found...

By Josie Glausiusz, Nature | 06.11.2014
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On 23 April 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was ten years old...

By Josie Glausiusz, Nature News & Comment | 06.11.2014
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On 23 April 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was ten years old...

By Rana Dajani, Nature | 06.11.2014
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In January, Jordan passed a law to control research and therapy using human stem cells derived from embryos...

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 06.11.2014

Nine days before death row inmate Earl Washington’s scheduled execution, his lawyers informed the state of Virginia that it was...