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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 Abby McCloskey, The Dallas Morning News | 10.10.2025

We Texans like to do things our way — leave some hide on the fence rather than stay corralled, as...

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By Meagan Parrish, PharmaVoice | 10.10.2025

When CEO Ben Lamm steps into the spotlight, it’s usually to talk about his efforts bringing extinct animals back to...

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By Jared Whitlock, Endpoints News | 10.09.2025

When Nirnay Murthy learned about a treatment for his toddler son’s rare condition, relief quickly gave way to disappointment.

A...

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By Megan Molteni and Anil Oza, STAT | 10.07.2025

For two years, a panel of scientific experts, clinicians, and patient advocates had been hammering out ways to increase community...

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By Deni Ellis Béchard, The Washington Post | 10.07.2025

In 1949, when John Gurdon was a 16-year-old boarding school student at Eton College in England, his teacher described his...

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By Megan Mineiro and Caroline Kitchener, The New York Times | 10.05.2025

Kathleen Whipple and her husband had dreamed of a big family, but struggled to conceive.

Upon his return from an...

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By Shoumita Dasgupta, STAT | 10.03.2025

President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise in autism diagnoses in recent years as...

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By Emma Belmonte, ChinaFile | 10.03.2025

On the popular Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, an account called “Georgia Notes” (@格鲁吉亚小纸条...