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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...

Person on scale
By Carey Goldberg, WBUR | 08.27.2020

Here's a sci-fi fantasy spurred by some very real — but early — new research published this week:

Imagine the...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.25.2020

President Trump’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic has been rooted from the start in grand goals and grander ambitions, all...

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 08.25.2020

It's possible that you've never been sent one of these ads. I haven't. But if you're a young woman, aged...

People protesting
By Sam Farmer, Changing America | 08.21.2020

How might greater social justice for those who have unjustly been marginalized best be achieved? Perhaps cross-movement solidarity is the...

A mosquito family tree
By Brigitte Nerlich, Making Science Public | 08.21.2020

Some days ago, I came across an interesting virtual conference (HT @Sarah_A_Hartley) about gene editing which includes a session on...

By GEN, GEN | 08.20.2020

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School, in partnership with...

A doctor with a pipette in hand
By Elizabeth Cooney, STAT | 08.20.2020

The Food and Drug Administration’s rejection of a gene therapy for hemophilia A on Wednesday surprised many hematology researchers and...

3D landscape of a genome
By Indrani Mukherjee, Broad Institute | 08.20.2020

Life can change dramatically when someone learns they are genetically predisposed to a disease, such as a condition called familial...