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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...

5 men running on a track
By Nick Busca, Medium [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.25.2019

Scientists first developed gene therapy techniques in the 1990s, exploring ways to treat disease by modifying malfunctioning cells. In 1997...

Gloved hands over test tubes
By Editor, American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy | 04.24.2019

In a letter sent to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today, a broad collective of...

Human embryo under a microscope on blue background
By Emily Mullin, STAT [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.18.2019

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have created embryos containing genetic material from three people and are ready to...

Two 23andMe at-home DNA testing kits
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 04.16.2019

In 2010, Dr. Pamela Munster mailed her saliva to 23andMe, a relatively new DNA testing company, and later opted in...

Dorothy Roberts
By Mark Leviton, The Sun Magazine | 04.15.2019

Law, Africana-studies, and sociology professor Dorothy Roberts describes race as a “political category that has been disguised as a biological...

Photograph of Stephen Quake sitting
By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 04.14.2019

PALO ALTO, Calif. — “Success!” read the subject line of the email. The text, in imperfect English, began: “Good News...

Dollar bill with DNA in the middle
By Megan Molteni, Wired | 04.12.2019

THE UK BIOBANK is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of half...

A colorful image of a fertilized egg.
By Muri Assuncao, Daily News [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2019

Oh baby!

A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...