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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...

Grayscale image of an adult woman laying on a couch, with a toddler nestled in her arms. Both she and the toddler look affectionately at each other.
By Arthur Caplan, Wendy Dean and Brendan Parent, Washington Post | 11.09.2017

New York City police officer Wenjian Liu died while on duty in 2014. More than two years later, his daughter...

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By Paul Root Wolpe, et al., Nature Biotechnology | 11.09.2017

Recent developments in bioengineering promise the possibility of new diagnostic and treatment strategies, novel industrial processes, and innovative approaches to...

Microscopic image of skin cells
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 11.08.2017

For a soccer-playing, holiday-loving boy on the brink of death from a rare inherited skin disease, doctors have accomplished a...

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By Bonnie Rochman, KQED | 11.06.2017

Excerpts from “The Other Scarlet ‘A’: Abortion’s Relationship to Genetic Testing” from THE GENE MACHINE by Bonnie Rochman.

When the...

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By Alison Motluk, Hazlitt | 11.06.2017

They wanted a baby, she wanted to carry it for them—for a fee. It’s a common transaction but illegal in...

Close up of a baby's foot, when lying down, with a hospital tag attached to their ankle.
By Jim Kozubek, Undark | 11.03.2017

A cutting-edge study foreshadows what genetic science might bestow to human health, but the public is rightfully wary.

HARVARD MEDICAL...

A white toddler with long black hair and dressed in a pick dress, is held by an adult mother. The toddler sits on a table, with their hands extended reaching for another adult's masculine hand in front of the toddler.
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 11.01.2017

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Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It’s a disease that runs in...

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By Osagie K. Obasogie , Scientific American | 11.01.2017

What would it mean to embrace new gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR–Cas9 at the very moment white supremacy is, once again, on...