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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...

Segregated pawns
By Isabel Wilkerson , The Guardian | 07.28.2020

In the winter of 1959, after leading the Montgomery bus boycott that arose from the arrest of Rosa Parks and...

Doctor examining a black patient
By Rod McCullom, Undark | 07.27.2020

THE POWER OF artificial intelligence has transformed health care by using massive datasets to improve diagnostics, treatment, records management, and patient...

Artist's impression of gene therapy
By Jon Hamilton, NPR | 07.27.2020

This is the story of a fatal genetic disease, a tenacious scientist and a family that never lost hope.

Conner...

By Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Current Affairs | 07.23.2020

Ray Kurzweil, popularizer of the Singularity

Once the dust settles, and we look back on the decade that has just ended...

Slaves at work
By Christine Kenneally, The New York Times | 07.23.2020

Photo by British Library on Unsplash

More than one and a half centuries after the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, a...

By David Kaufman, The New York Times | 07.22.2020

While plenty of New Yorkers have formed families by gestational surrogacy, they almost certainly worked with carriers living elsewhere. Because ...

Photo of a plane
By Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune | 07.22.2020

Photo by Amarnath Tade on Unsplash

Seven weeks old, with a thoughtful expression and a full head of silky black...

Outline of African American Woman
By Hayley Fowler , The News & Observer | 07.22.2020

For more than four decades North Carolina’s statewide eugenics program forcibly sterilized almost 7,600 people — many of whom were...