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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...

Gloved hand on DNA sample
By Max Read, Intelligencer | 10.17.2018

Do we know anything new about Elizabeth Warren, now that we’ve seen her DNA test results? Besides, I mean...

Elizabeth Warren speaking at podium
By Alondra Nelson, The New York Times | 10.17.2018

This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announced that geneticists had analyzed her DNA and proved her longstanding claim that...

Padlock attached to a DNA strand on a blue background.
By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg | 10.15.2018

In theory, taking a DNA test to reveal your ancestry is optional. But it’s on its way to becoming obligatory...

Elizabeth Warren speaking at a podium
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 10.15.2018

Has there ever been such an elaborate rollout for the results of a DNA test?

On Monday morning, Elizabeth Warren—Massachusetts...

Four rows of all of the human chromosomes, labeled by number
By Heather Murphy, The New York Times | 10.11.2018

The genetic genealogy industry is booming. In recent years, more than 15 million people have offered up their DNA —...

Gloved hands putting pipet into test tubes
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 10.11.2018

Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year...

Six steps of cell division
By Nishakanthi Gopalan et al., Biotechnology Law Report | 10.09.2018

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Stem cell (SC) technology has spurred many debates among experts which highlight both the deficiency of current regulation and...

Brown mouse standing on a white background
By Sharon Begley, Stat | 10.08.2018

Nearly 40 years after surgeons first operated on fetuses to cure devastating abnormalities, researchers have taken the first step toward...