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In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Bay Area startups are focused on just that. It wouldn’t be the first...

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...

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

fertility clinic
By Bridget Rollason, ABC News | 10.25.2025

Five years ago, Liz Tripodi nervously touched down in Georgia, on Russia's doorstep, to meet her newborn twins.

At the...

eggs in Petri dish
By Nahlah Ayed, CBC Listen | 10.22.2025

Egg freezing is one of today’s fastest-growing reproductive technologies. It's seen as a kind of 'fertility insurance' for the future...

graphic of reproduction related items
By Ben Foldy, The Wall Street Journal | 10.21.2025

AnnaMaria Gallozzi and her husband wanted to have a second child last year. Because Gallozzi has advanced breast cancer, the...

The world's leading transhumanists aren't the voices you need to listen to about "AI safety."
By Émile P. Torres, Truthdig | 10.17.2025

The Internet philosopher Eliezer Yudkowsky has been predicting the end of the world for decades. In 1996, he confidently declared...

magnifying glass and DNA on blue background
By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 10.17.2025

Before dawn on a March morning, Doug Whitney walked into a medical center 2,000 miles from home, about to transform...

graphic of doctor looking at genes and making judgments
By Julia Black, MIT Technology Review | 10.16.2025

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges...