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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 Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.09.2019

The state stem cell agency, which is expected to run out of taxpayer money by the end of this year...

line drawings depicting apes evolving into a human
By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 10.08.2019

In the iconic frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863), primate skeletons march across...

Bottles of IVF hormones and a pile of syringes
By Catherine Waldby, The Conversation | 10.03.2019

I think they collected […] maybe, six eggs. I think we got four embryos out of that […] One was...

young man of color wearing a hoodie behind a cyclone fence
By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

The Trump administration is moving to collect DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people booked into federal immigration custody...

Book cover for "Altered Inheritance" featuring text and two difference colored eyes
By Adam Hayden, Science | 09.30.2019

With Altered Inheritance, bioethicist Françoise Baylis has authored a vivid call to action that “aims to bridge the divides...

black and white image of a human egg undergoing IVF
By Stepan Kravchenko, Bloomberg | 09.28.2019

This summer, after a Russian biochemist announced plans to follow in the footsteps of a rogue Chinese researcher and produce...

Photos of Stuart Newman and Tina Stevens and the cover of their book, Biotech Juggernaut
By Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman, CounterPunch | 09.26.2019

In September, California’s legislature passed AB 922, a bill legalizing the payment to women for their eggs for research purposes...

needle extracting a fertilized egg from a petrie dish
By Jennifer M. Gumer, The Hastings Center | 09.26.2019

Last month, an international commission convened to consider whether and how germline editing – changing the genes passed on to...