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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...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Editor, ReproTech Truths | 04.10.2019

In the last few years, ASRM has aggressively courted RESOLVE, once a purely grassroots group of women helping women get...

Woman looking and pointing at phone
By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post | 04.10.2019

Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to...

Black and white depiction of evolution, from primates to humans
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.10.2019

Human intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started millions of...

Two 23andMe at-home DNA testing kits
By Peter Aldhous, Buzzfeed | 04.09.2019

A year ago, when cops captured Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer, the world woke up...

Stem cell injection needle
By Chia-Yi Hou, The Scientist | 04.08.2019

Last week marked a flurry of activity to rein in activities by stem cell clinics that give customers unproven interventions...

Mother kissing smiling baby on the cheek
By Lesley McClurg, National Public Radio | 04.08.2019

It wasn't hard for Shara Watkins to get pregnant. It was hard for her to stay pregnant.

In 2016, she...

Mother with three children--kissing one on the cheek and holding one
By Ellen Matloff, Forbes | 04.07.2019

For over a century parents had the option of placing a child for adoption anonymously – meaning that the child...

Dollar bill with DNA in the middle
By James Paton, Bloomberg | 04.06.2019

Dozens of revolutionary gene therapies that mend faulty strands of DNA are on their way, bringing the power to eliminate...