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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 Dan Cloer, Vision [cites CGS' Richard Hayes] | 07.16.2019

Fifteen thousand babies are born every hour, every day, around the world. About 3 percent, or 450 individuals, are twins...

US Congress building
By Andrew Joseph, STAT+ | 07.15.2019

A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China...

book cover for "Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
By Alexandra Minna Stern, Salon | 07.14.2019

If the alt-right is galvanized by one overarching narrative, it is that demographic change will reduce whites to a hated...

Google Street View Image of the CHA Fertility Center building
By Ashley Collman, Business Insider | 07.12.2019

A Los Angeles fertility clinic has been hit with two lawsuits from clients who said their embryos were mixed up...

demonstrators at a white supremacist rally
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 07.12.2019

On the hate site Stormfront, one of the largest online discussion forums dedicated to “white pride,” sharing DNA results with fellow members has become a...

Human Fetus at Nine Weeks
By Oscar Schwartz, OneZero | 07.09.2019

For years, hopeful parents pursuing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment have had the option of screening embryos for severe heritable...

By Staff Writer, CBS Los Angeles [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.09.2019

An unidentified New York couple is suing a Los Angeles fertility clinic after they claim the woman gave birth to...

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By Gemma Buck, National Post | 07.08.2019

Canadian bioethicists and genetics experts are speaking out against Denis Rebrikov, the Russian molecular biologist who plans — in defiance...