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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 Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg Business Week | 09.11.2019

About three years ago, Orig3n Inc., a small genetic testing company in Boston, discovered a big problem with its DNA...

dozens of human sperm swimming
By Meghana Keshavan, STAT | 09.11.2019

For generations, it was a basic tenet of donating sperm: Clinics could forever protect their clients’ identities.

But, increasingly, donor...

embryos on a monitor next to a large microscope
By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.11.2019

Scientists have invented a device that can quickly produce large numbers of living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.10.2019

Backers of a California ballot initiative to provide $5.5 billion more for the state's cash-strapped stem cell agency say they...

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By Ankita Rao, VICE | 09.09.2019

Content Warning: This story contains sensitive details about reproductive violence.

S.A.T.* wanted her daughter in the room.

It was the...

Colorful "G" from the Google logo
By William Wan and Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post | 09.06.2019

Responding to ubiquitous online marketing by stem cell clinics selling unapproved treatments for everything from achy joints to Alzheimer’s, Google...

Baby piglets sleeping
By Belinda Martineau, Biotech Salon | 09.06.2019

UC Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam described the experience of learning that the “poster animals for the gene-editing revolution” do...

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By Mohsen Abdelmoumen, American Herald Tribune | 09.05.2019

In your book Biotech Juggernaut, Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience co-authored with Tina Stevens, you draw attention...