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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 black and white filtered image of a pregnant stomach exposed.
By Yon Sineat, Kong Meta and Erin Handley, Phnom Penh Post | 01.10.2018

Malis* sits under her home in a remote village with her legs folded under her swelling belly. She’s six months...

In a grass field, a brown and white cow stares. On its right ear, there is an identification tag.
By Andrew Rosenblum, MIT Technology Review | 01.10.2018

Gene editing can change an animal’s sex.

A graduate student was waiting for Alison Van Eenennaam in the doorway of...

A desk with the following items: wooden gavel, and two Federal Reporters books tacked on each other.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post | 01.09.2018

During three emotional days of divorce talks, Drake and Mandy Rooks managed to agree on how to divide up almost...

A large chart displaying ATCG in multiple colors.
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 01.08.2018

Researchers hoping to use a gene-editing technique to treat diseases may have to seek alternative enzymes.

The body’s own immune...

A spotlight illuminates a puzzle of a double helix that is being assembled, but with missing pieces that are staggered around its border.
By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 01.08.2018

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc on Monday announced a collaboration with rival drugmakers that will speed its effort to collect genetic information...

A building, with a sign in front reading "US Department of Health and Human Services Federal Regulation Administration."
By Michael Mezher, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society | 01.04.2018

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday warned stem cell product supplier American CryoStem Corporation for marketing an...

The back of a child walking with an adult who is holding their hand. Surrounding the child are bubbles in the wind.
By Elizabeth Cook, KPIX 5 [features CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 01.04.2018

A revolutionary way for human beings to reproduce appears inevitable, and the future may be closer than any of us...

Newborn babies are asleep in separate hospital crates, with blankets, that are lined up.
By Hillary Savoie, Romper | 01.04.2018

When I saw the email asking me to write about the recent Ohio law that makes performing an abortion after...