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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 Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic | 05.21.2014
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Forty years ago, there was exactly one way for humans to reproduce. A man’s sperm would combine with...

By Andy Thompson, Post-Crescent Media | 05.20.2014
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Wisconsin has joined a handful of states in allowing familial DNA testing — a powerful but debatable procedure...

By Abby Phillip, Washington Post | 05.20.2014

California legislators are hoping to make resolving the tricky issue of parental rights as easy as filling out a form...

By Dr. Gordon Atherley, VoiceAmerica | 05.19.2014

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Enola G. Aird

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD

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Enola G. Aird is a...

By Laura Mauldin, Somatosphere | 05.19.2014
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I am grateful to Somatosphere for inviting to me to write a post for the blog. I was...

By Alda Sigmundsdóttir, The Iceland Weather Report | 05.19.2014
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Last week I posted a picture on our Facebook page of the contents of an envelope I received...

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 05.19.2014
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On paper, Dr. Robert C. Green should be worried. An analysis of his DNA flagged a rare mutation...

By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune | 05.15.2014

In the fall of 2010, a team of scientists in California injected human stem cells into the spinal cords of...