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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...

Sleeping Baby
By Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker | 07.20.2020

Ben and Abbie Rosenberg’s relationship got its start the old-fashioned way. Not their initial meeting—that happened on Jdate, a Jewish...

Holding a phone
By Natasha Singer, The New York Times | 07.20.2020

Image by IntelFreePress via Flickr

When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free softwareto help alert people...

Artist's impression of data
By Sara Morrison , Vox | 07.16.2020

In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax...

Baby's hand in an adult's
By Peter McGuire, TheJournal.ie | 07.14.2020

SHORTLY AFTER THE marriage equality referendum passed in 2015, Ranae von Meding became pregnant with her first child.

“We used...

Frankie Cordoba in a wheelchair
By Chelsey Cox , USA Today | 07.14.2020

July marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Pride Month. But that's not why people...

A remote control
By Alexis Soloski, The New York Times | 07.13.2020

Ready for a thought experiment?

Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse. Crime is...

Selection in a lab
By Michael Le Page, NewScientist | 07.12.2020

The first reliable way of isolating sperm stem cells from the testes and growing them outside the body could help...

Genetic Information
By Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News | 07.10.2020

Canada's highest court has issued a ruling today upholding a federal law preventing third parties, such as employers and insurance...