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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...

5 Individuals are sitting around a white coach work space all engaging in conversation.
By Natasha Singer, New York Times | 04.15.2018

Levi Strauss & Company introduced a novel benefit for employees at its San Francisco headquarters last fall: free genetic screening...

IVF
By Alex Matthews-King, The Independent | 04.13.2018

People hoping to be parents in the UK are being sold “false hope” by foreign IVF clinics claiming success rates...

Chinese newborn baby in hospital
By Christina Zhao, Newsweek | 04.12.2018

A Chinese baby was born by a surrogate mother four years after his parents were killed in a car accident.

Parents...

Newborn baby crying in hospital
By Tracy Samilton, Michigan Radio | 04.12.2018

Saginaw attorney Philip Ellison has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of nine parents whose infants' blood was taken and...

A stack of 3 US dollar bills. The top bill is a $1, then $20, and then another $1.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.12.2018

An analyst at Goldman Sachs asked a troubling question this week about gene therapy.

“Is curing patients a sustainable business...

Chinese flag blowing in the wind
By Javier Hernandez, The New York Times | 04.11.2018

BEIJING — The advertisement for sperm donors was exacting.

No bald men. No hereditary diseases like color blindness. And in...

Burnt orange colored monkey swinging through the trees in central america
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 04.11.2018

Sometime this year, people in the US and Europe will start getting treated for diseases using the gene-editing tool CRISPR...

dragon
By David Ewing Duncan, Neo.life | 04.05.2018

Drew Endy almost can’t talk fast enough to convey everything he has to say. It’s a wonderfully complex message filled...