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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 Miriam Zoll, PBS | 05.27.2014

In a recent PBS “To the Contrary”show about the infertility industry, host Bonnie Erbe` asked: Why did Miriam Zoll...

By Justine Griffin, Sarasota Herald-Tribune | 05.25.2014

Editor's note: Inspired to act by a childhood loss, Sarasota Herald-Tribune staff writer Justine Griffin became an egg donor and...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 05.23.2014
An important question in contemporary bioethics concerns the role of genetic and neurobiological determinism in crime. What role do genes...
By John Farrell, Forbes | 05.23.2014
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One thing the recent cloning breakthroughs have highlighted is the lack of engagement with the issue from the...

By Rachel Glaser, WHAM TV | 05.23.2014

Rochester, N.Y. -- People who undergo increasingly popular genetic testing could be penalized, forced to pay higher premiums or denied...

By Dana Perls, Food and Technology Blog | 05.22.2014

Two Mondays ago, I sat in a room of some of the most powerful agribusiness, food and synthetic biology companies...

By Steven Brown and Mary McElroy, Providence Journal | 05.22.2014

The presumption of innocence lies at the heart of our system of criminal justice, but a bill that will soon...