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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...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, New Scientist | 01.24.2018

Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to...

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By Doree Shafrir, Buzzfeed | 01.23.2018

When my husband and I started trying to have a baby, part of us thought even if it took a...

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By Faye Flam, Bloomberg | 01.23.2018

It can feel shocking when someone disparages a golden person, thing or technology -- and in recent years, no emerging...

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By Hu Yuwei, Global Times | 01.22.2018

A Chinese woman surnamed Lin who paid 450,000 yuan ($69,200) for a baby delivered by a surrogate Cambodian mother now...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 01.22.2018

In the U.S., the first planned clinical trials of CRISPR gene editing in people are about to kick off...

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By Bai Tiantian, Global Times | 01.22.2018

A genetically modified (GM) rice product developed by a group of Chinese scientists has acquired the US Food and Drug...

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By Zoë Corbyn, The Guardian | 01.21.2018

My sisters, aged 27 and 30, are seated at their computers poring over the slick websites of companies promising to...

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By Andria Borba and Molly McCrea, CBS SF Bay Area | 01.21.2018

Young women see the ads on their Facebook feeds, in a college newspaper, even posted on Craig’s List.

They read...