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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 Andrew Cave, The Telegraph | 09.09.2013
Claiming to be a world first, the service has been developed by Scéil, part of Cellectis, a French genome technology...
By Laura Beil, The New York Times | 09.09.2013
TIJUANA, Mexico — Maggie Alejos arrived here in June from St. Anne, Ill., with her husband, her daughter and a...
By Sarah Ditum, NewStatesman | 09.09.2013
What did Dr Prabha Sivaraman do wrong? She said this: “I don’t ask questions. You want a termination, you want...
By David Langwallner, Independent.ie | 09.09.2013
The Irish Innocence Project welcomes the new DNA database bill, last heard of in 2010. In the US and UK...
By Editorial, New Scientist | 09.06.2013
The age of genomic medicine is dawning. Whole-genome sequencing is starting to transform the diagnosis of rare inherited diseases, and...
By Tom Chivers, The Telegraph | 09.06.2013
Of all the culture-war issues, the endless battles over gay marriage and immigration and so on that divide liberal Left...
By Fergus Walsh, BBC News | 09.05.2013
It is 18 months since Carol Gedda suffered a massive heart attack. It left her with just 20% of her...
By Erika Check, Nature | 09.04.2013
Hundreds of US babies will be pioneers in genomic medicine through a US$25-million programme  to sequence their genomes soon after...