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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 Hispanic Business, Hispanic Business | 11.14.2013

ETC Group and Friends of the Earth are launching a public design and branding competition to shine a spotlight on...

By Kingsley Napley, Claire Wood and Katie Newbury, Lexology | 11.14.2013

The number of couples entering into surrogacy arrangements has been steadily rising in recent years, including gay couples keen to...

By Daniella Silva and Tracy Connor, NBC News | 11.14.2013
Ohio's governor has postponed the execution of a child-killer so he can study his offer to donate organs — a...
By Connie St Louis, The Conversation | 11.14.2013
Reflecting on her imminent departure as head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the body that regulates IVF and...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 11.14.2013
IT'S huge and it could help cure cancer. That's the aim, anyway, of the world's largest cancer database, launched this...
By Charlie Cooper, The Independent | 11.13.2013
Limits on the number of twins and triplets that can be born as a result of IVF treatment have been...
By Jon Walker, USA Today | 11.13.2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A philanthropist who made his money as a credit card provider is giving $100 million to...
By Jonathan Webber, Genomics Law Report | 11.12.2013
The September 24, 2013 grant of a patent to 23andMe for “gamete donor selection based on genetic calculations” has stirred...