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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 Bettina Chang, Pacific Standard | 06.05.2014
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You’re familiar with the scene: A skeleton lies, inscrutable, on a table in a dimly lit medical examiner’s office...

By Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check | 06.04.2014
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This week, the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, the National Asian Pacific...

By Lizzie Thelwell, Medical Xpress | 06.04.2014
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Researchers have reviewed current knowledge to further understand the reasons for the increased incidence of birth defects in...

By Joseph Cox, Mother Board | 06.04.2014
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Medicine will be revolutionised in the 21st century, thanks largely to our increasing understanding and collection of genetic data.

Genetic...

By Press Release, GeneWatch UK | 06.04.2014

GeneWatch UK today criticised a speech by the new NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, in which he reportedly argued...

By Alexandra Sifferlin, Time | 06.04.2014
The “my genes made me do it” defense is not solely reserved for Law and Order SVU. At least...
By Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 06.03.2014
LONDON (AP) — Britain's fertility regulator says controversial techniques to create embryos from the DNA of three people "do not...
By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 06.03.2014
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Reports of a new kind of stem cell, produced by simply stressing mature mouse cells, kicked up a...