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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...

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stands behind a podium
By Laurie McGinley, Washington Post | 12.19.2017

In a historic move, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a pioneering gene therapy for a rare form...

Wall display featuring large letters of ATCG in various colors. Behind, they are illuminated by a light.
By Nikhil Reddy, Huffington Post | 12.18.2017

Imagine you’re having a child in the near future, and with the vast trove of gene-editing technologies that have surfaced...

Two women are pictured holding a protest sign stating, "The future is feminist"
By Francine Coeytaux, Marcy Darnovsky, Susan Berke Fogel, and Emily Galpern, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog | 12.18.2017

This commentary was originally published on the IJFAB Blog.

For more than a decade, Canadian regulation has explicitly countered...

A bent golden pocket watch rests on a stack of US dollar bills.
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.14.2017

Directors of the California stem cell agency today virtually endorsed a plan to stave off its financial death, pinning their...

Gray scale photo of a pregnant stomach. Two hands hold the belly along the top and bottom. The belly appears cracked.
By Clare Goldwin, Daily Mail | 12.13.2017

It can give couples babies they so longed for but, as Justine and many others have found, the strain of...

Microscopic close-up of an eight-cell embryo.
By Tina Hesman Saey, ScienceNews | 12.13.2017

Debates about when and how to use the tool in humans take on new urgency

Scientists reported selectively altering genes...

Colorful chart showing ATCG
By Olivia Nash, Brown Political Review Magazine | 12.13.2017

Genetic testing is one of the most groundbreaking technologies of the modern age. The advent of human genome sequencing has...

Several labeled test tubes are positioned on a rack, with a person's hand reading for one.
By Craig Venter, Washington Post | 12.13.2017

Recent leaps in the biosciences, combined with big data analysis, have led us to the cusp of a revolution in...