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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...

By Hannah Furness, The Telegraph [UK] | 07.28.2016

With its inimitable humour, love of tea and dedication to cricket in all weathers, there can be little doubt the...

By Donna Webeck, Daily Life [Australia] | 07.28.2016

Renee Golland, a mother of three, is no stranger to surrogacy. She knows firsthand both the blessing and the...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.28.2016

Health regulators in the United States are talked about as the best in the world, but a new study on...

By Natalie Schreyer, Mother Jones | 07.28.2016

The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a...

By Editorial, New Scientist | 07.27.2016

THERE’S a certain breed of techno-optimist who likes to talk about “the singularity” – a time when technology progresses so...

By Express News Service, The New Indian Express | 07.27.2016

KOCHI: IN a first in India, doctors used Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), a process of genetic profiling of embryos prior...

By Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal Daily News | 07.27.2016

A same-sex married couple who hoped to become parents of a third child with the help of a surrogate mother...

By Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post | 07.27.2016

This was the year the government was going to start helping injured veterans and members of the military maintain their...