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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 grey and white photo of Ellis Island
By Emma Cieslik, Ms. Magazine | 11.20.2025

Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash

This piece includes sanist slurs used in the late 19th and...

a skull with technology
By Emile Torres, Jacobin | 11.15.2025

Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to...

neuron
By Aisha Down, The Guardian | 11.10.2025

It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain...

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By Robyn Vinter, The Guardian | 11.09.2025

A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.07.2025

This week, we heard that Tom Brady had his dog cloned. The former quarterback revealed that his Junie is actually...

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By Lucy Tu, The Guardian | 11.05.2025

Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her...

stem cells
By Patrick Foong, BioNews | 11.03.2025

Recently, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from stem cell clinics, which challenged the Food and Drug...

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By Lauran Neergaard, AP News | 11.03.2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really...