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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...

IVF graphic interrupted partway
By Jackie Davalos, Bloomberg | 09.15.2025

Kindbody, one of the largest fertility companies in the US, sought to disrupt egg freezing and IVF by combining spa...

sperm donor graphic
By Dorian Accoe, BioNews | 09.15.2025

Many fertility clinics and gamete banks exclude candidate donors who are neurodivergent or have a family history of neurodivergence. Neurodivergence...

IVF graphic
By Georgia Brice, BioNews | 09.15.2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends three NHS-funded IVF cycles for those eligible under 40...

graphic of eye staring at future technology
By Aaron Ginn, The Washington Post | 09.12.2025

Earlier this year, I had dinner in D.C. with Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. At...

a graphic of the earth consumed by fire
By Kevin Roose, The New York Times | 09.12.2025

The first time I met Eliezer Yudkowsky, he said there was a 99.5 percent chance that A.I. was going to...

visualization of AI computer servers
By Alondra Nelson, Science | 09.11.2025

In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the...

gene wheel
By Natalie Ram, Anya E. R. Prince, Jessica L. Roberts, Dov Fox, and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Science | 09.11.2025

After declaring bankruptcy in March 2025, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing company 23andMe sold the data of more than 15 million...

the White House
By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post | 09.03.2025

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping...