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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...

Mosquito
By Natasha Foote, EURACTIV.com | 07.03.2020

After over 78 environmental and agricultural organisations signed a letter this week calling for a moratorium on gene drive technology...

By Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, The BMJ Opinion Blog | 07.03.2020

As the covid-19 pandemic continues to progress across the world, the concept of vulnerability echoes throughout various social and political...

By Eli Cahan, Science | 07.02.2020

The former Watson School of Biological Sciences has changed its name.

For Earyn McGee, terminology matters.

McGee, a herpetologist, studies...

A Black mother and babies
By Rhea W. Boyd, Edwin G. Lindo, Lachelle D. Weeks, Monica R. McLemore, Health Affairs Blog | 07.02.2020

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the
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By Shilpa Jindia, The Guardian | 06.30.2020

A new documentary film is shedding light on forced sterilizations in California, reviving a dark chapter in the state’s history...

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By Larry R. Churchill Nancy M. P. King Gail E. Henderson, Hastings Center Report | 06.29.2020

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The Covid‐19 pandemic has concentrated bioethics attention on the “lifeboat ethics” of rationing and fair allocation of scarce medical...

Uighur Muslims
By AP, Associated Press | 06.28.2020

Photo by Marc Curtis from Pexels

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and...

By Cecily Huang, ABC [Australia] | 06.27.2020

When Teresa Xu stood in a Beijing courtroom last December to demand equal access to reproductive rights, she knew she...