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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 Adam Frank, NPR Blog | 06.10.2014
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We have a problem. It's a big one that raises big challenges for the human future and the...

By Pete Shanks, The Huffington Post | 06.09.2014

Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History has been out for a month, and the fuss...

By Jeeg, Council for Responsible Genetics | 06.09.2014
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Background

The Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative (www.dnapolicyinitiative.org) is a civil society-led project which aims to set...

By Maurice Bernstein, Bioethics Discussion | 06.08.2014
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754  wrote "The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This...
By Pete Shanks | 06.06.2014

Over the past couple of months, there has been a cascade of proposals for — or at least discussions about...

By Jenny Graves, The Washington Post | 06.06.2014
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The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor in the 1990s. But...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2014

Three-person IVF is a critical departure from the traditional kind. This new and biologically extreme technique, which has generated scientific...

By Emily Underwood, Science | 06.05.2014
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The price of President Barack Obama’s BRAIN may have just quadrupled. Last year, the White House unveiled a...