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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 W. Patrick McCray, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.10.2014
In July 1969—less than two weeks after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin cavorted on the moon—The New York Review...
By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times | 03.10.2014
TOKYO — One of the authors of a study that was claimed to have discovered a simple way to make...
By Marcy Darnovsky; Jessica Cussins, Medical Laboratory Observer | 03.10.2014

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing gained notoriety in the autumn of 2008. That was when two prestigious publications, The New Yorker...

By Elizabeth M. Meade, The Morning Call | 03.10.2014
A recent New York Times article (Feb. 25) on a new fertility procedure that involves using the genetic material of...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 03.10.2014
It was a genuine “where's the beef” session for California's nearly 10-year-old, $3 billion state stem cell agency.

A member...
By Louise Kinross, Bloom | 03.06.2014
It’s on the list.

My son’s rare genetic deletion is on the list of disorders identified by microarray analysis...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 03.06.2014
My feed is full of stories about “three-parent babies” and whether they are a eugenic threat. Predictably, Art Caplan, the...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 03.06.2014
In an effort to bring clarity to one of the most controversial and confusing scientific findings in recent memory...