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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 gavel rests on a circular wooden stand.
By Amy Goldstein and Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 03.12.2018

An Ohio couple who lost both their frozen embryos when a fertility clinic's storage tank overheated last week are the...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.12.2018

The home page of the Minnesota biotech company Recombinetics shouts “The Gene Editing Revolution Is Here.” 

Or it would be, if only...

Scientist pipetting into plate
By Mary Warnock, The Guardian | 03.11.2018

The Royal Society has recently published the results of an extensive survey of the attitudes of the general public to...

Women operating machinery at a fertility clinic
By Amy Goldstein , Washington Post | 03.11.2018

A long-established San Francisco fertility clinic experienced a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank holding thousands of frozen eggs...

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By Joyce Bichler, Breast Cancer Action | 03.07.2018

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time approved an at-home genetic testing kit without a doctor’s...

Bright yellow fluorescent fish in water
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.07.2018

Britons are broadly in favour of rewriting the genetic code of human embryos to prevent children from inheriting devastating diseases...

A grainy, grayscale image showing the process of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). A slender needle tip touching the edge of an egg, held by pipette.
By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 03.06.2018

Women are unfairly paying the price for men's falling fertility,  scientists have warned.

Mens sperm counts have reduced by...

7 bright yellow images of "x-shaped" chromosomes
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.06.2018

On Tuesday, 23andMe announced it will start telling customers of its mail-in DNA-testing kit about three mutations in the breast-cancer...