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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 scientific illustration of the HIV-1 virus and the CCR5 gene.
By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 11.26.2018

HIV researchers are incensed that the first reported use of gene editing in human embryos was aimed at conferring HIV...

Human embryo on blue background
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.26.2018

A Chinese scientist's claim that he edited DNA in embryos that developed into twin baby girls has set off a...

Doctor holding pipette
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.26.2018

Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the...

Pipet in a test tube
By Marilynn Marchione, AP News | 11.26.2018

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin...

clip art of helix and pencil
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2018

When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global...

A close-up on a hand with a pen writing on pieces of paper on a desk.
By Marcy Darnovsky, Boston Review | 11.19.2018

In her essay, Merve Emre declares that “all reproduction . . . is assisted.” Few feminists of any wave or...

street signs reading "Success Ln" and "Failure Dr"
By Jacob Ward, The New York Times Magazine | 11.16.2018

In 1999, a trio of economists emerged from a conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, squinting without sunglasses...

Process of IVF--blue egg being injected on blue background
By Matthew Weaver, The Guardian | 11.12.2018

IVF clinics have been putting profits before patient care by charging clients for expensive treatment add-ons that have no proven...