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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...

image of blood cells with sickle cell disease
By Rob Stein, NPR | 07.29.2019

For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a...

By Walter Isaacson, Air Mail | 07.27.2019

QUEBEC CITY

Biology is the new tech. I’m at a conference in Quebec City on CRISPR, the molecular tool designed...

Photo of a human embryo
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.26.2019

A Japanese stem-cell scientist is the first to receive government support to create animal embryos that contain human cells and...

State of Georgia depicted in rainbow colors
By The Associated Press, NBC News | 07.24.2019

A same-sex couple in Georgia said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the U.S. State Department is unconstitutionally refusing to...

By Jonathan Lambert, Nature | 07.24.2019

Advocates for stem-cell research in California are pushing ahead with a plan to save the struggling state-funded California Institute for...

A doctor holding a DNA test swab
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 07.21.2019

Senior doctors have called for a crackdown on consumer genetic tests, following an influx of patients who have been wrongly...

Red and blue DNA
By Samara Rosenfeld, Inside Digital Health [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.19.2019

It’s no secret that gene editing has sparked ethical concerns. In March, scientists and ethicists from seven countries issued ...

eggs under a microscope
By Ruthie Ackerman, The New York Times | 07.19.2019

I was beginning to realize I wanted to have a baby. My husband, I knew, never would.

From the time...