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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...

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By Amy Silverman, Arizona Daily Star | 03.27.2020

Advocates for people with intellectual disabilities are concerned that those with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism and other such conditions...

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By Anon, Gulf Times [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.27.2020

The question of where the line should be drawn in human gene editing, and if it should be allowed to...

By Sirin Kale, The Guardian | 03.26.2020

James Washington, a 37-year-old lawyer originally from Norfolk, UK, was on the US Department of State website last Thursday trying...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 03.24.2020

Joe Durak and Valeria Martinez Viademonte are expecting their second child on April 16. Problem is, their home is in...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Slate | 03.24.2020

For the past 30 years, I have tried to make sense of the interactions between science and politics, especially the...

By Lily Wakefield, Pink News | 03.23.2020

The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic affect on LGBT+ parents who are expecting children via surrogacy, according to an...

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By Christina Caron, New York Times | 03.22.2020

After nearly two years of trying to have a baby, Karen Rzonca, 32, was hoping that this would be the...

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By Donna Dickenson, Katie Hasson & Marcy Darnovsky, Project Syndicate | 03.17.2020

The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...