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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 Beth Greenfield, Yahoo | 04.13.2020

While the state of New York recently overturned a long-held ban on commercial surrogacy, and news about celebrities opting to...

By Katrina N. Jirik, Bill of Health | 04.13.2020

As health care resources grow increasingly scarce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, states, hospitals, and individuals are forced to make tough...

Child's crib
By Lia Tremblay, NPR | 04.09.2020

Seeing Thomas Hunt Morgan’s experiments with fruit flies in episode one of The Gene: An Intimate History took me...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.08.2020

Nineteen scientists seeking to crush the coronavirus submitted applications this week for research grants from the California stem cell agency...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Issues in Science and Technology | 04.07.2020

Science is moving fast right now. The novel coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions for rapid knowledge generation: about the...

A protest against forced sterilization
By Dennis Ward, Face to Face | 04.07.2020

More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa...

By Libby Dowsett, The Oregonian/OregonLive | 04.05.2020

First-time gestational surrogate Shandi Phelps realized her life was about to take a bizarre turn when President Donald Trump announced...

By Orlando Crowcroft & Marta Rodriguez Martinez, Euronews | 04.04.2020

This is not the way that Briton Nadene Ghouri had planned to spend the first six weeks of motherhood.

Holed...