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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...

2 small baby feet wrapped in a cream colored blanket
By Nicola Abé, Spiegel Online | 03.28.2018

When Baruch, a soldier in the reserves and his mother's favorite, died in the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, he was...

Hand holding a strand of DNA
By Martin Enserink, Science | 03.27.2018

A group of European scientists has founded an international association to discuss and provide guidance on the ethical use of...

FDA building in Silver Spring, Maryland
By Paige Winfield Cunningham , Washington Post | 03.27.2018

The Food and Drug Administration’s move to allow 23andMe to screen people for breast cancer risks may unleash a flood...

The letters D-N-A spelled out in red and blue double helices.
By Timothy Caulfield, Policy Options | 03.23.2018

After what feels like a decade of hype and underwhelming sales, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing seems to be taking off...

A small, pink ceramic piggy bank is nestled in the middle of a woven basket full of golden eggs.
By Lindsey J. Smith, San Francisco Magazine [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.23.2018

After spending her 20s as an aid worker in Africa and India, Helena moved to the Bay Area in 2012...

Black and white postcard ca. 1910 showing the Sonoma State Home (Hospital).
By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira, The Conversation | 03.22.2018

In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the...

Picture of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
By Samantha Pearson, The Wall Street Journal | 03.22.2018

SÃO PAULO—With “jewel-tone eyes,” blond hair and a “smattering of light freckles,” Othello looks nothing like most Brazilians, the majority...

Two babies wearing hats
By Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Jounral | 03.21.2018

It was her last chance.

MaryJo Dunn had been trying to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization for 20 months.

At...