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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...

Logo of the petition drive campaign
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 05.05.2020

Backers of a $5.5 billion ballot initiative to save the California stem cell research program from financial extinction said today...

An African-American man
By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic | 05.04.2020

Ethel Freeman became famous in death, even though no one knew her name. For months, she was one of the...

Earth, half in darkness
By Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams | 05.04.2020

President Donald Trump's brand of "America First" isolationism was on full display Monday as the U.S. declined to participate in...

By Dan Vergano and Kadia Goba, Buzzfeed | 05.04.2020

WASHINGTON — Outside the grocery store in Congress Heights, people are playing dominoes in the parking lot, close together without...

By Natalie Lampert, New York Times | 05.01.2020

Since March, fertility clinics across the country have halted treatments for tens of thousands of people because of Covid-19, forcing...

A Navajo girl in front of a Mesa
By Jeffrey Ostler, The Atlantic | 04.29.2020

As the death toll from COVID-19 mounts, people of color are clearly at greater risk than others. Among the most...

By Charles Schmidt, Scientific American | 04.29.2020

On January 10, when Chinese researchers published the genome of a mysterious, fast-spreading, virus, it confirmed Dan Barouch’s greatest worry...

By Françoise Baylis and Natalie Kofler, Issues in Science and Technology | 04.29.2020

As COVID-19 case numbers start to plateau in various places, some governments are now focusing on how best to ease...