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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...

Microscopic image of an oocyte and the tip of a syringe.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.16.2017

Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been...

DNA profile illuminated by a light.
By Nathan Tempey, Gothamist | 06.16.2017

A state commission voted this morning to adopt a controversial policy allowing police to perform familial DNA searches in certain...

Close-up of an adult hand gently touching a baby's curled up hand.
By Antonio Regelado, MIT Technology Review | 06.15.2017

Chinese parents can now decode the genomes of their healthy newborns, revealing disease risks as well as the likelihood of

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A pot of boiling water cooks two corns.
By Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post | 06.13.2017

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Green stalks have only just begun to sprout in the test fields where biotech giant DuPont Pioneer is...

Microscopic photo of intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2017

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000

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A test tube rack is filled with test tubes. A gloved hand lifts one of the open test tubes, positioned to read the label.
By Francie Diep, Pacific Standard | 06.12.2017

Advances in DNA profiling bring up some interesting questions.

Despite what procedural dramas might lead you to believe, the DNA...

Three double helices are vertically positioned following each other.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.12.2017

When people talk about the gene-editing technology CRISPR, it’s usually accompanied by adjectives like “revolutionary” or “world-changing...

Landscape photo of the US Supreme Court building. with the sun and blue sky above.
By Osagie Obasogie, The Atlantic | 06.12.2017

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, but the issues involved in the

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