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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 adding pipetting material into a vial labeled CRISPR
By Laura Hercher, The Nation | 08.23.2019

Call it the “ick” factor.

Stories like the 2018 bombshell out of China, of a scientist manipulating embryonic DNA...

close-up image of researcher in a lab
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.23.2019

Proponents of a proposed law allowing women to be paid to donate their eggs for research say it’s all about...

human sperm surrounding an ovum
By Rob Stein, NPR | 08.22.2019

First it was human embryos. Now scientists are trying to develop another way to modify human DNA that can be...

By Traci Bowden, ABC News Australia | 08.21.2019

Two couples who had children through surrogates in Ukraine are warning prospective parents to do their research thoroughly before choosing...

human sperm swimming
By Jacqueline Mroz, The New York Times | 08.21.2019

Growing up in Nacogdoches, Tex., Eve Wiley learned at age 16 that she had been conceived through artificial insemination with...

Headshot of Jeffrey Epstein
By Luke Darby, The Guardian | 08.19.2019

According to his indictment, over the course of many years Jeffrey Epstein “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls...

Drawing of DaVinci's "Man" (Vitruvie Luc Viatour)
By Stuart Newman, CounterPunch | 08.16.2019

Fabricating part-human-part-nonhuman animals, with features of both, seemed like something out of Greek mythology until the late 20th century...

image of a hospital room
By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 08.16.2019

Seizing on the surging popularity of at-home DNA testing kits, top academic medical institutions are opening clinics that promise to...