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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 Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The Guardian | 07.25.2016

The astute woman of child-bearing age develops a facility to tune out of alarmist headlines about the biological clock...

By Chung Hyun-chae, The Korea Times | 07.24.2016

Korea's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has rejected the registration of a stem cell line, dubbed NT-1, created...

By Dara Mohammadi & Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.24.2016

Elizabeth Parrish is CEO of BioViva, a Seattle-based biotech company working to develop treatments to slow the ageing process...

By Yang Xi, Global Times | 07.24.2016

Zhang Wenyong, a 44-year-old father in Beijing, did a genetic test on his two daughters. His girls are only two...

By Daniel Bice, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | 07.24.2016

Jay Timmons and Rick Olson expected little legal trouble when they filed papers in Dane County Circuit Court last year...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 07.23.2016

WASHINGTON — Government scientists are seeking a million volunteers willing to share the innermost secrets of their genes and daily...

By Leah Campbell, Mom.me | 07.22.2016

In 2007, I became an egg donor for the first time. In 2009, I was diagnosed with Stage IV endometriosis...

By Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times | 07.22.2016

“Not everything in life is for sale, nor should it be.” 

That’s what California Gov. Jerry Brown said in 2013...