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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...

Voting by mail
By Terry McSweeney, NBC Bay Area [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.04.2020

Proposition 14 on the November ballot asks voters to approve $5.5 billion to continue funding stem cell research in California...

Reproductive surgery
By Gabriela Salas, National Women's Health Network | 10.02.2020

On September 15, 2020, a whistle-blower complaint alleged that immigrant women in a privately-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...

rainbow flag drawn on inside of white wrist
By Oliver Carroll, The Independent | 10.02.2020

Russian authorities have warned of the arrest of gay men who have fathered children to surrogate mothers, firing what appears...

Horse eye
By Sarah Radford , Horse & Hound | 10.02.2020

Researchers in Argentina have produced what is believed to be the world’s first genetically edited horse embryo.

The team worked...

Home DNA testing
By Caitlin Harrington, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.02.2020

WHEN THE GENEALOGY company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became...

2020 elections
By Guardian Editorial, San Francisco Bay Guardian [cites CGS] | 10.01.2020

We were for Bernie. We think he would have won in 2016 and would win this year.

But it’s not...

Pig
By Amanda Heidt, TheScientist | 10.01.2020

Human-animal chimeric embryos—organisms created using cells from two or more species—have the potential to change how researchers study disease and...