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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...

Forensic DNA
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 06.26.2020

As washing machines go, the one that contributed to Roy Verret’s capital murder charge was pretty average. White, Whirlpool, reliable...

By Ben Fidler, BioPharma Dive | 06.26.2020

Dive Brief:

  • Two children with a rare neuromuscular disease have died after receiving a high dose of a gene therapy...
Silhouette of hand placing ballot in box
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.26.2020

Directors of the financially strapped, California stem cell agency this morning endorsed a $5.5 billion bond measure to refinance the...

Portrait of Linnaeus
By Alan Goodman, Discover | 06.25.2020

Carl Linnaeus, who defined four varieties of humans in the 18th century
Portrait by Alexander Roslin; cropped photo by Nationalmuseum, Sweden

A friend...

Clamps adjusting DNA
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.25.2020

A suite of experiments that use the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to modify human embryos have revealed how the process can...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 06.23.2020

Many people, finding themselves at the end of their reproductive journey, decide to donate their extra embryos "to science." We...

Sickle cell anemia, showing blood vessel with normal and deformated crescent
By Rob Stein , NPR | 06.23.2020

Like millions of other Americans, Victoria Gray has been sheltering at home with her children as the U.S. struggles through...

Seal of California
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly [cites CGS and Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.22.2020

A $5.5 billion stem cell bond measure qualified this afternoon for the November ballot, but the campaign to win voter...