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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 AP, Associated Press | 03.20.2014

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld California's law requiring people arrested for felonies to submit samples of their DNA...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 03.20.2014
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face...
By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 03.20.2014

Genetic testing is often heralded as a cornerstone in an imminent and exciting new age of personalized medicine, in which...

By BBC, BBC News | 03.19.2014

In a farm house in north-western Germany, heated by a lively fire in a wood-burning stove, a bulky and bespectacled...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 03.19.2014
In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton. Intel...
By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.18.2014
Googling a person is about to take on a completely new meaning.

The Mountain View search giant recently invited geneticists...
By Press Release, National Perinatal Association | 03.17.2014

Binghamton, NY –For the first time in its history, the National Perinatal Association (NPA), representing U.S. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit...

By Sunshine Coast Daily, Sunshine Coast Daily [Australia] | 03.17.2014

THE ethical rules governing the use of egg and sperm donations, embryos, surrogacy and sex selection for IVF patients could...