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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...

Suburban neighborhood on a sunny day with blue skies in the background.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 07.17.2018

It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair.

For her part, St...

Pipetting fluid into clear test tubes held in a blue container.
By Ian Sample, The Guardian [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.17.2018

The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances...

3 different color cartoon drawing of DNA--blue, green, and orange--on a yellow background.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 07.17.2018

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly...

Stained pink/purple tumor cells under a microscope.
By Sharon Begley, Stat | 07.16.2018

From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits...

DIgital illustration of dna in vials of different colors.
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 07.14.2018

Late last year, Justina Crawford decided to swab the inside of her mouth for a saliva sample to do a...

Researcher extracts DNA from a test tube using a micropipette.
By Sarah Russo, The Technoskeptic [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.11.2018

Genetic Testing Kits: Fueling a Historical Discrimination Bias?
The diversity of snowflakes is a great analogy to that of the...

Tray of test tubes with purple caps.
By Liz Connor, Irish News | 07.11.2018

It's been four decades since Louise Brown became the first human to be been born after conception by IVF, and...

Newborn baby lies on hospital bed and stretches arms upwards.
By Ashley Fetters, The Atlantic | 07.09.2018

Sperm donation offers a tidy solution to an aggravating problem: When a person or a couple wants a baby and...