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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...

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By Aditi Murti , The Swaddle | 08.07.2019

The New York Times recently reported that financier and recently-arrested sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein apparently believes in a philosophical strain...

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By Jeanne F. Loring, Nature | 08.07.2019

For the past dozen or so years, stem-cell researchers in California have been the envy of the world. In 2004...

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By John Horgan , Scientific American | 08.05.2019

A while back my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, created a new major called science and technology studies, or STS...

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By Sharon Begley, STAT | 08.05.2019

George Church, the prominent Harvard University biologist, offered a full-throated apology for having meetings and phone calls with accused sex...

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By Anna Silman, The Cut | 08.01.2019

Yesterday, the New York Times published a story about alleged sex trafficker and cartoon villain Jeffrey Epstein’s plan to...

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By Jon Cohen, Science | 08.01.2019

On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of...

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By James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times | 07.31.2019

Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed...

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By Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.30.2019

The world's largest public health authority has weighed in with the most authoritative statement yet on the use of Crispr...