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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...

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By Karin Hammarberg, Alex Polyakov, Catherine Mills, and Karinne Ludlow, The Conversation | 10.03.2025

Reports of several cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups have put the Australian fertility industry in the spotlight for all...

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By Jessica Mouzo, El País | 10.03.2025

DNA is the molecule of life: this double-helix structure, present in every cell in the body and organized into fragments...

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By Matthew Ormseth and Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times | 10.02.2025

The father of some 22 children discovered by Arcadia police in May also owns a property in El Monte where...

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By Paige Cockburn, ABC News | 10.02.2025

On Thursday afternoon, NSW Health announced a temporary exemption to the donor limit would come into effect in mid to...

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By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Zoeann Murphy, The Washington Post | 10.01.2025

MEXICO CITY — When she walked into an IVF clinic in June, Alin Quintana knew it would be the last time she...

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By Daniel Hildebrand, The Humanist | 10.01.2025

When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the...

eggs in a petri dish
By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2025

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are...

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By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.29.2025

According to an article on BBC News, the Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin...