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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...

a rainbow dna helix
By Philip Ball, Prospect | 09.04.2019

Some people once felt that the reason to look for a “gay gene” was so that it could be eliminated...

two identical black and white cats
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.04.2019

China’s first duplicate cat marks the country’s emergence in gene research and its entry in a potentially lucrative and unregulated...

close-up image of a hand on a wheelchair wheel
By Andrew Solomon, The New York Times | 09.02.2019

The eugenic movement spearheaded by Francis Galton in England in the late Victorian period reached a culmination in the view...

an illustration of scientists doing construction on a double helix
By Alex Pearlman, MIT Technology Review | 08.30.2019

Citing the tremendous cost of new drugs, an international group of biohackers say they are creating a knockoff of a...

Donald Trump speaking into a microphone
By Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News | 08.29.2019

The Trump administration wants to enable Customs and Border Protection officials to collect DNA samples from undocumented immigrants in its...

human eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech! | 08.27.2019

Ten years ago, if you were a woman who had donated eggs, there was a good chance you'd never met...

black and white cow with yellow tags in its ears
By Megan Molteni, WIRED | 08.26.2019

Up until a few months ago, Brazil was all set to create the country’s first herd of genetically dehorned dairy...

track star Usain Bolt holds up a flag after winning a race
By Catherine Taylor, ABC News Australia | 08.24.2019

It's a scene straight out of Gattaca — the 1997 futuristic film in which eugenics is used to breed and...