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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...

gloved hand holding a forensic DNA result
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times | 09.25.2019

For decades, scientists have used ever-improving DNA forensics to help solve crimes and detect suspects in cold cases such as...

Image of He Jiankui
By Franҫoise Baylis, STAT | 09.23.2019

The hubris of some scientists knows no bounds. Less than a year after He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, drew scorn...

gloved hand holding a vial of stem cells with tweezers
By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.18.2019

California’s medical board on Wednesday took up an issue that scientists and consumer watchdog groups say is critical to patient...

Window poster for SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program)
By Audrey Farley, The Washington Post | 09.17.2019

In July, the Trump administration unveiled a plan to disqualify 3 million Americans from receiving food stamps. The proposal, which...

Human egg being penetrated by a needle
By Emily Mullin, One Zero | 09.16.2019

At least 10 babies have been born to apparently infertile women as a result of a controversial in vitro fertilization...

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By Madeline Roache, Al Jazeera | 09.13.2019

Throughout Ukraine, advertisements about becoming a surrogate mother are plastered on buses and throughout the metro.

They ask: "Аre...

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By Lisa Ikemoto and Diane Tober, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.12.2019

For a list of organizations opposing AB922, including reproductive justice, women’s health, LGBTQ rights, and other public interest organizations, see this fact...

A gloved hand drops material to a vial labeled CRISPR
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 09.11.2019

An HIV-positive man in China is doing well after receiving infusions of donor cells whose genes were edited with CRISPR...