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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 Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 07.26.2013
The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine voted Thursday to adopt a $70-million plan to develop a...
By Judy Stone, Scientific American | 07.25.2013

uBiome’s CEO, Jessica Richman, seems to me to be a great saleswoman who also excels at sounding innocent and playing...

By Daniel Cressey, Nature | 07.25.2013
UK government failures over forensic science are leading to fragmentation, research gaps and possibly even miscarriages of justice, according to...
By S. Lochlann Jain, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.25.2013
Gov. Jerry Brown is considering a crucial bill (AB926) on human egg donation. The bill would enable payment to women...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, The New York Times | 07.24.2013

SAN FRANCISCO — WHEN the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.24.2013
A key panel of the California stem cell agency today balked at approving a plan to ease restrictions on using...
By Anne Schindler, First Coast News | 07.23.2013
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In many ways, the US and Canada aren't that different. But there are important distinctions. And one...
By Alex Stern and Tony Platt, The Huffington Post | 07.23.2013
The recent revelation that 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 is another example...