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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...

West front of the United States Capitol, with the Senate chamber on the left, and the House on the right.
By Megan Thielking, Stat News | 06.21.2018

Pressure is growing on direct-to-consumer genealogy and genetic testing companies to be more transparent about their privacy policies, after the...

Image of a woodland mosquito resting on a leaf.
By Rowan Jacobson, Pacific Standard | 06.20.2018

In a windowless London basement, behind three sets of locked steel doors and a wall of glass, thousands of Anopheles...

Illustration of a neanderthal skull.
By Jon Cohen, Science | 06.20.2018

Until now, researchers wanting to understand the Neanderthal brain and how it differed from our own had to study a...

Photograph of an empty doctor's office.
By Priyanka Vora, Scroll.in | 06.20.2018

Last year, shortly after she had donated her eggs for the eighth time since 2009, Shabana Memon* resolved never to...

Lonely road stretching into the distance with the U.S. Mexico border wall flanking it.
By Ian MacDougall, ProPublica | 06.19.2018

Amid a bipartisan backlash, President Trump has tried repeatedly to shift blame to Democrats for his own administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration...

An Indian woman gazes into the distance and appears to be thinking.
By Priyanka Vora, Scroll.in | 06.19.2018

In March, Mumbai resident Shaheeda Khan*, 26, spent 20 days at a fertility clinic in Kerala, where doctors gave her...

Microscope image of H1N1 virus
By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 06.19.2018

New genetic tools are making it easier and cheaper to engineer viruses and bacteria, and a report commissioned by the...

A pregnant woman in a blue dress holds her stomach and gazes at the camera.
By Fay Schopen, The Guardian | 06.18.2018

I don’t consider myself to be lucky. I have never won the lottery, or even found a fiver in an...