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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...

The belly of a pregnant woman lying down is featured. The photo is filtered in sepia tone.
By Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune | 01.28.2017

Battle pits infertile couples against faith groups, who call it "renting a womb." 

Ann and Chris Carda received a phone...

A woman is resting on a hospital bed
By Emily Woodruff, STAT | 01.28.2017

When Catherine Fonseca volunteered as an egg donor, the intake form asked for her SAT scores.

It did not ask...

A container is filled with cotton swabs.
By Eli Rosenberg, The New York Times | 01.27.2017

The leads have dried up in the killing of a young woman in Queens during a jog last summer.

Tips...

Railroad tracks are blocked by a buffer stop.
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 01.26.2017

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) today issued a statement urging against clinical genome editing in human...

Four pigs pear over a metal bar.
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.26.2017

Prospect of growing human organs for transplantation raised by creation of first ever embryos combining two large, distantly related species...

A newborn baby's feet are shown, with a hospital tag on the left foot.
By Jeff Lyon, The JAMA Network | 01.25.2017

Several years ago, a ray of light appeared in pediatric care when researchers devised a way to reset a child’s...

Three candles are lit in a darkened room.
By The Times editorial board, Los Angeles Times | 01.21.2017

As  part of the vile eugenics movement that swept the country during the first half of the 20th century, more than...

Against a shirt with black and gold stripes, a sticker reads "Do you care?" in a thought/speech bubble.
By Edward Hockings and Lewis Coyne, Ethics and Genetics [cites CGS] | 01.20.2017

KEY POINTS

  • UK biosciences policy has become increasingly motivated by economic considerations in recent years, at the expense, we believe...