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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...

Empty hospital bed
By James Gallagher, BBC | 09.30.2020

The first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.

Mr Brown, who was also...

Female immigrant with child
By Caitlin Dickerson, Seth Freed Wessler and Miriam Jordan, New York Times | 09.29.2020

Wendy Dowe was startled awake early one morning in January 2019, when guards called her out of her cellblock in...

Deaf person
By Emily Mullin, Medium | 09.29.2020

When Jessica Chaikof was born in February 1995, doctors at an Atlanta hospital placed a pair of headphones on her...

Public opinion graphic
By Christopher D. Wirz, Environmental Communication | 09.29.2020

Gene editing is an inherently wicked problem

Societal debates about the applications of novel gene editing techniques like CRISPR in...

Woman behind bars
By Alan Judd, AJC | 09.26.2020

Women detained in a South Georgia immigration jail told a congressional delegation Saturday they had been forced to undergo invasive...

View behind bars
By Steven Moore, The Washington Post | 09.25.2020

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General received a formal complaint alleging that unnecessary hysterectomies were being performed...

Native american woman
By Lizzie Wade, Science | 09.24.2020

Abigail Echo-Hawk can’t even count how many times she’s been called a troublemaker. It’s happened at conferences, workshops, and even...

Sad woman
By Adolfo Flores, Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News | 09.24.2020

Amanda thought she was going to the doctor for a simple procedure to drain an ovarian cyst, but when she...