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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 Christina Caron, New York Times Parenting | 06.26.2019

A New York bill to legalize paid surrogacy was the subject of intense debate this year. For supporters, it was...

Quoted text: "I guess we all speak up so frequently on this issue that we’re just waiting for the right thing to happen.”   – Victor Dzau, president of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine
By Rick Berke, STAT | 06.24.2019

Two influential leaders in science for the first time publicly condemned a Russian biologist who said he plans to produce...

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By Rob Stein, National Public Radio | 06.21.2019

A Russian scientist says he wants to create more genetically modified babies, flouting international objections that such a step would...

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By Bill Lueders, The Progressive | 06.18.2019

I hope it’s not too late to review Bill McKibben’s important new book Falter, just as I join him...

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By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.15.2019

A new documentary about stem cell therapy is being questioned by some of those who appear in it — prominent...

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By Jon Cohen, Science | 06.13.2019

In a bold rejection of the widespread sentiment—and regulations in many countries—that no one should alter the genome of a...

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By Vivian Wang, The New York Times | 06.12.2019

The proposal to legalize surrogacy in New York was presented as an unequivocal progressive ideal, a remedy to a ban...

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By Elizabeth Joh, The New York Times | 06.11.2019

Someone broke into a church in Centerville, Utah, last November and attacked the organist who was practicing there. In March...