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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...

An empty baby cradle, with a spinning mobile of bear toys hanging above.
By David M. Perry, The Nation | 08.29.2017

We’re on the cusp of being able to genetically shape our offspring, but without accurately informing would-be parents, genetic diversity...

Microsopic image of fertilized egg.
By Karla Lant, Futurism [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.21.2017

As the scientific community takes in the work of the team who edited the DNA of the human embryos this

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Against a black background, golden numbers and tick marks suggesting a clock, spiral into the center.
By Patricia Stapleton, The Conversation | 08.21.2017

The first “test-tube baby” made headlines around the world in 1978, setting off intense debate on the ethics of researching...

Microscopic image of sperm is injected directly into an egg
By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.18.2017

From the thirteenth floor of a glass tower at the Oregon Health & Science University, you get a panoramic view...

A cotton swab rests on a container.
By Eric Boodman, STAT | 08.16.2017

It was a strange moment of triumph against racism: The gun-slinging white supremacist Craig Cobb, dressed up for daytime TV...

Bird's eye view of an adult with slender features working, using a laptop, and notebook and surrounded by coffee, plant and candle on a wooden desk.
By Alison DeNisco, Tech Republic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.15.2017

Women leave jobs at mid-career in tech at higher rates than those in other fields. It's possible that benefits like

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Spotlighted against a black shadowy background is a blue DNA model projected by an upside down shaped pyramid hologram
By Brendan P. Foht, Foreign Affairs [cites CGS] | 08.14.2017

What U.S. Government Policy Should Be

News that U.S. scientists led by Oregon Health and Sciences University biologist Shoukrat Mitalipov...

two people in lab coats edit a strand of DNA
By Rebecca Cokley, The Washington Post | 08.10.2017

It’s ironic that news of a breakthrough in human gene editing was released on July 26. That was the...