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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...

a graphic showing certain genes acceptable and others not
By Auriane Polge, Science & Vie [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.19.2025

L’idée de pouvoir choisir certaines caractéristiques de son futur enfant a longtemps relevé de la science-fiction ou du débat éthique...

three babies with arrows designating some as higher up than others
By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you. 

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when...

Gelsinger
By Tia Ghose, Live Science | 09.16.2025

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy died. His death led...

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By Peter de Kruijff, ABC News | 09.16.2025

Do you wonder where your meat comes from? Maybe it is organic, wild harvested, or farmed.

Or perhaps it was...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...