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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...

Burj Al Arab at sunset in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 02.28.2018

In a massively ambitious project aimed at improving the health of its 3 million residents, the city of Dubai plans...

Image of Big Ben and surroundings in London, England
By BBC, BBC | 02.28.2018

Guidance on how to start a family using a surrogate has been published for England and Wales for the first...

Sign says, "Arizona: The Grand Canyon State welcomes you"
By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 02.28.2018

Talk about a terrible effort at legislation. The latest embryo disposition bill out of the Grand Canyon State, SB 1392...

Red blood cells - 3 regular circular red blood cells and one crescent shaped sickle cell red blood cell.
By Mark Shwartz, Stanford Medicine | 02.28.2018

Once a month, David Sanchez, 15, comes to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for an infusion of donor red blood...

Two light tan dogs playing in the grass.
By Matt Stevens, New York Times | 02.28.2018

It was basically an aside — an odd and interesting nugget in an interview with Barbra Streisand that otherwise dealt...

Coded data
By Kadija Ferryman and Mikaela Pitcan, Data & Society | 02.26.2018

Fairness in Precision Medicine is the first report to deeply examine the potential forbiased and discriminatory outcomes in...

A little girl holds adults hands as they balance walking.
By Suzanne Moore, The Guardian | 02.22.2018

Sometimes it seems there are so many ways to destroy women that the methods become invisible to us. There are...

Several video surveillance cameras are lined up in different angles on a wall
By Nithin Coca, Engadget | 02.22.2018

In July 2009, deadly riots broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China. Nearly 200 people died, the...