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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 group of Biohackers. In the middle, one of the members holds an Apple laptop. Josiah Zayner  stands beside the laptop
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 11.29.2017

Josiah Zayner took a swig from his beer and squinted into the spotlight. He was already kind of drunk. He...

A large, multicolored representation of DNA fragments
By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.29.2017

Eli Wheatley and Christian Guardino are among a growing number of patients whose lives are apparently being saved or radically...

Gray scale photo of an adult's hand holding a baby's.
By Tina Hesman Saey, ScienceNews [cites CGS’ Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.28.2017

A doctor explains to a young couple that he has screened the pair’s in vitro fertilized embryos and selected those...

Senator Schumer stands behind a podium, surrounded by press.
By Daniella Silva, NBC News | 11.26.2017

It's in our genes to be suspicious of fine print.

So, with the holiday season in full swing, Sen. Chuck...

A corn plant springs up from the soil.
By David Nield, Science Alert | 11.23.2017

Traditionally, most spying and intelligence gathering has been done by highly trained human operatives. But the US military has a...

Bird's eye view of the side of a pale skinned pregnant woman, with an exposed stomach, who uses one hand to grasp her stomach, and the other to hold up a sonogram of the baby.
By Anastasia Maunilova, News Deeply | 11.23.2017

Russia’s rapidly developing surrogate industry may now grind to a halt, as members of the parliament debate banning the practice...

Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell
By Jessica Lussenhop, BBC | 11.21.2017

The moment Tristan Roberts became the first human to inject an untested, experimental gene therapy into his stomach fat, he...

A nurse examines a newborn baby through an incubator.
By Sophie Bearman, CNBC | 11.20.2017

In 1997, Debbie and Frank Astorino welcomed three children into the world, triplets Kevin, Kerri and Sheri.

The Astorinos had...