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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...

Home DNA test kit
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Washington Post | 03.15.2020

When Lisa DeAngelico found out she had Stage 4 breast cancer two years ago at age 47, she says one...

By Michael Slezak and Penny Timm, ABC Australia | 03.14.2020

It’s pitch black. The Sun won’t rise for another hour or so.

The ground around Tony Biffin’s dairy farm on...

By Cecile Janssens, eLife | 03.13.2020

Interest in using polygenic scores to make predictions is skyrocketing in many areas of life. For example, researchers are exploring...

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 03.11.2020

This week, we filed an amicus brief in a South Dakota case arguing that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police...

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By University of Bristol, Phys Org | 03.11.2020

Pupils' genetic data do not predict their educational outcomes with sufficient accuracy and shouldn't be used to design a genetically...

By Claire Tomkins, Forbes | 03.09.2020

In the U.S., birthrates have dipped to an all-time low of 1.73 births per mother.

More than anything, this is...

By Riley Black, Discover | 03.09.2020

The last mammoths were in trouble. Isolated on Wrangel Island, a spit of land off the coast of Siberia, the...

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By Angela Saini, Nature | 03.09.2020

One of the world’s leading universities — University College London (UCL) — has completed an inquiry into its support for...