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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...

Marcy Darnovsky speaks among  panel at CRISPRcon
By Michael Fernandez, George Washington University Food Institute [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

On August 16-17, at the University of California at Berkeley, more than 300 people gathered to explore science, society and...

Illustration of an 8-cell stage embryo
By Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian.com [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.21.2017

A genetic tool allows researchers to disable a gene key to human development in a closely regulated experiment

For the...

An empty laboratory with tools such as microscopes
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.20.2017

For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about the earliest...

Close-up of a human stem cell surrounded by chemicals
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Tech Review | 09.19.2017

Stem cells can be coaxed to self-assemble into structures resembling human embryos.

Yue Shao had never seen anything quite like...

Excited Baltimore Ravens fans are standing behind a fence hoping to get their gear signed.
By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed | 09.18.2017

At the Ravens vs. Browns game on Sunday, a biotech startup had planned to hand out tens of thousands of

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A multicolored representation of DNA profile.
By Michael White, Pacific Standard Magazine | 09.13.2017

Four crucial facts about race, sex, and biology that contradict this messy argument.

In America, we've had a long history...

In the palm of a hand,  someone holds out a crumpled hundred dollar bill.
By Paul Bentley, Sara Smyth, Katherine Faulkner , Daily Mail Investigations Unit | 09.12.2017

The fertility watchdog last night launched a major crackdown on clinics exposed by the Daily Mail for exploiting desperate women...

The French flag blows in the wind, against a blue sky with clouds.
By Brian Love, Reuters | 09.12.2017

The right of lesbian couples and single women to have access to assisted reproduction was “a matter of social justice”...