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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...

A close-up photograph of a light-skinned newborn baby with its face obscured
By Landon J. Getz and Graham Dellaire, The Conversation | 03.15.2019

In a newly published article in Nature, a group of prominent scientists and ethicists have called for a moratorium...

By Eleanor Feingold, The Conversation | 03.15.2019

Gene editing is one of the scarier things in the science news, but not all gene editing is the...

A busy urban street scene from Tokyo, Japan
By Tom Barnes, The Independent | 03.15.2019

The Japanese government will pay millions of yen to victims of a now-defunct state sterilisation programme modelled on the laws of ...

White pencil writing a double strand of DNA on a blue background
By Karen Weintraub, Scientific American [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

A group of 18 prominent scientists—including some who helped develop CRISPR–Cas9, the current leading tool for gene editing—issued a call...

Depiction of CRISPR--purple strand of DNA being cut from them middle of two orange strands
By Rob Stein , National Public Radio [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited...

By Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg et al., Nature | 03.13.2019

We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA...

Ultrasound of child with down syndrome
By George J. Annas, Science | 03.10.2019

In 2011, poet and writer George Estreich wrote about the impact of biotechnology on family life in his first book, ...

Family tree with 7 generations
By Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.07.2019

Tracing genealogies has become immensely popular of late, and numerous companies offer to help you search through historical records or...