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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...

Robert Edwards
By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 08.02.2020

If the “cancel culture” is gunning for eugenicists, there are more than enough candidates. One of the most prominent is...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Issues in Science and Technology | 07.31.2020

In this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...

By Caitlin Harrington, Wired | 07.30.2020

JEFF JOHNSON WAS in a hurry. His lunch break was nearing its end, and he needed to catch the 6 train...

Ota Benga
By Julia Jacobs, New York Times | 07.29.2020

Ota Benga at the 1904 World’s Fair

The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Bronx Zoo, three other zoos and...

Covid-19 Vaccine
By Antonio Regalado , MIT Technology Review | 07.29.2020

Preston Estep was alone in a borrowed laboratory, somewhere in Boston. No big company, no board meetings, no billion-dollar payout...

Baby peeking
By Andrew Roth, The Guardian | 07.29.2020

As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the...

Sign says Proceed With Caution
By Dina Temple-Raston & Tim Mak, NPR | 07.29.2020

An NPR investigation has found irregularities in the process by which the Trump administration awarded a multi-million dollar contract to...

University campus in England
By Becca Muir, Prospect | 07.28.2020

Every so often in Britain, eugenics is accused of making a comeback. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn attention to...