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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...

Picture capturing moving traffic on a busy night.
By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 11.04.2016

Bangkok: Cambodia has moved to shut down its booming commercial surrogacy industry that has attracted several dozen Australian couples seeking to...

Side by side portraits of 2016 Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
By C.U.N.Y. Graduate School of Journalism, Scientific American | 11.03.2016

Plenty of sex, lies and videotape, but silence on pressing science policy issues from the presidential aspirants

In this election...

Illustration which displays the shape of Cambodia's borders, colored as if it their national flag. At the center, there is a red outlined temple.
By AFP, Channel News Asia | 11.03.2016

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has become the latest country to issue a ban on commercial surrogacy after curbs on the industry...

Logo of German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) in Cologne.
By Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle | 11.03.2016

Germany is planning a central sperm donor database to make it easier for children to use their legal right to

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Food display of fruits, vegetables, nuts, breads, and meats.
By Julia Belluz, Vox | 11.02.2016

Yet another Bay Area startup is promising to revolutionize health. In the tradition of Theranos, which tried to democratize...

Doctor in white coat, with stethoscope and pens in pockets.
By Casey Ross, STAT News | 11.02.2016

We hear a lot about the wonders of genetic testing, how it can revolutionize medicine and find cures for fatal...

Blue-stained molecular photo of DNA strands.
By Sarah Buhr, Tech Crunch | 11.01.2016

The first whole human genome sequencing cost a whopping $2.7 billion. That didn’t bode well for making any breakthroughs on...

Portrait photo of Dorothy Roberts widely smiling with her arms lightly crossed.
By Brett Milano, Harvard Gazette | 11.01.2016

Professor Dorothy E. Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a leading scholar on legal and biosocial theory, will...