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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...

Microscopic image of red blood cells
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 12.07.2017

Gene therapy has freed 10 men from nearly all symptoms of hemophilia for a year so far, in a study...

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By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2017

The revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 is best known for helping scientists edit a strand of DNA more precisely and...

A group of women raning in age, with their heads covered by scarves,m arching in line in a building. These women are the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
By Kelly McLaughlin, Daily Mail | 12.06.2017

An Argentine woman has been reunited with her relatives 40 years after she was stolen as a newborn by the...

A woman scientist is turned away from the camera, and faces a laboratory desk filled with equipment.
By Christie Aschwanden, FiveThirtyEight | 12.06.2017

The easiest way to undermine good science is to demand that it be made “sound.”

Science is being turned against...

Three burning white candles, in a dark room. Candle wax drips on each.
By Tess McClure, Vice | 12.05.2017

How a powerful group of New Zealanders attempted to wipe out 'mental defectives' and improve the white race.

Oh Mother...

A person leans and covers their head, expressing sadness.
By Sheila Wayman, Irish Times | 12.05.2017

The day Ruth drove her car up to Howth harbour in Co Dublin and contemplated driving off the side, she...

Bird's eye view of a large group of people who are seated around a round table, looking at laptops, and infographics, with coffee mugs placed on the table.
By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 12.04.2017

Investors searching for a new way to make big money in medicine have hit upon an age-old problem: infertility.

The...

Grayscale image of a pregnant woman, with exposed belly, sitting with her bare feet in focus in front of her. Her face is not shown, and the picture displays only her body from the shoulders down.
By Jessica Hamzelou, New Scientist | 11.29.2017

Would-be parents seeking IVF treatment use published success rates to choose a clinic – but the stats don't reflect the...