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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...

a scientist handles genetic material with a pipette
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 12.09.2019

Just two years ago, GEDmatch was still an obscure genealogy website, known only to a million or so hobbyist DNA...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 12.08.2019

California’s stem cell program, created by voters in 2004, has made great strides in advancing what’s known as regenerative medicine...

biology classroom with a microscope and synthetic human brain and heart
By Amy Harmon, The New York Times | 12.07.2019

Biology textbooks used in American high schools do not go near the sensitive question of whether genetics can explain why...

By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 12.06.2019

Pig-primate chimeras have been born live for the first time but died within a week. The two piglets, created by...

clasped hands of an elderly white woman
By Emily Mullin, Medium One Zero | 12.05.2019

Would you pay $1 million and fly to South America for a chance to live longer?

Libella Gene Therapeutics, a...

Photo of Mary Darnovsky, a white woman with brown hair and glasses
By Marcy Darnovsky, Southwestern Medical Perspectives | 12.04.2019

Should CRISPR be used to alter the genes and traits of future children and generations? Dozens of nations have considered this...

Photo of He Jiankui, a Chinese man with black hair wearing a blue shirt
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.03.2019

He Jiankui’s manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.

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A woman's face with a grin indicating facial recognition software
By Sui-Lee Wee & Paul Mozur, The New York Times | 12.03.2019

In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science...