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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 Jill Werman Harris, New York Times | 10.07.2013
When Tracy Dunbrook, a bioethicist in Sherman, Conn., tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation, she was told she had...
By Lauran Neergard, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 10.07.2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Little Amelia Sloan became a pioneer shortly after her birth.

The healthy baby is part of a...
By Arlene Bynon, The Arlene Bynon Show | 10.07.2013

The Arlene Bynon Show on SiriusXM radio is a national affairs show airing weekdays from 4 - 6pm eastern time...

By Nick Collins, The Telegraph [UK] | 10.04.2013

A group of 34 European politicians, including eight British MPs and peers, has signed a declaration attacking plans which will...

By John Horgan, Scientific American | 10.04.2013

Last spring, I kicked up a kerfuffle by proposing that research on race and intelligence, given its potential for...

By Katie McDonough, Salon | 10.04.2013

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that, while nominally banning abortions based on the sex...

By Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist | 10.04.2013
There’s a moment in the documentary film ‘It’s a Girl’ that is at once chilling and heart-rending.

A woman smiles...
By Dov Fox, Huffington Post | 10.04.2013

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) this week awarded a patent on "gamete donor selection" to 23andMe, the genetic...