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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...

By Emily Mullin, OneZero | 06.15.2020

A team of scientists has used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to create genetically modified human embryos in a London lab...

Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912
By C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American | 06.12.2020

Ronald Fisher as a steward at the First International Eugenics Conference, 1912 (via wikipedia)

Amidst protests and conversations on racism following...

Photo of Franz J. Kallman
By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 06.12.2020

We may be in the midst of a critical historical turning point in social justice. The confluence of the Black...

Rufus von KleinSmid
By Teresa Watanabe and Tomás Mier, Los Angeles Times | 06.12.2020

With its soaring arches, international flags and globe-topped tower, the Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs is one...

By Philip Ball, New Statesman | 06.10.2020

In February this year, the Downing Street adviser Andrew Sabisky was forced to resign when his incendiary comments on race...

Two scientists in a lab
By Bethany Brookshire, Science News | 06.09.2020

Biomedical science has historically been a male-dominated world — not just for the scientists, but also for their research subjects...

By Nina de Groot, Journal of Medical Ethics blog | 06.09.2020

A couple of years ago, during my studies, I assisted with a surgical removal of a benign uterine tumor at...

By Rori Rohlfs, Genes to Genomes | 06.08.2020

I was a fourth-year graduate student when I found myself asking a librarian for the archives of the journal The...