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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...

A group of scientists dressed in lab coats and protective glasses and gloves, are huddled together at a desk, looking with deep interest as the central scientists holds a specimen.
By Simine Vazire, Slate | 10.24.2017

The New York Times Magazine story on Amy Cuddy brings up extremely important problems in science. But we cannot equate...

A grayscale image of a person's hand is shown, as it gently holds a colorful image of earth in their hands.
By Françoise Baylis, Healthy Debate | 10.24.2017

20th anniversary celebration of the Oviedo Convention begins today, October 24, in Strasbourg, France. The goal of this international conference...

Grayscale image of a baby's fist, resting as they lay down.
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 10.23.2017

In almost every way, the 2-year-old is the child that his moms dreamed of. He loves playing with cars and...

A pregnant woman lays on a bed of blankets with her arm extended, as another woman with medical tools touches her arm.
By Sharmila Rudrappa, The Conversation | 10.23.2017

Would you pay someone US$150,000 to have your baby?

The high cost of surrogacy in the U.S. has pushed many...

Landscape photo of the CA Capitol Building, against a blue sky and surrounded by trees,\.
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.20.2017

On Oct. 2, California took a major step to address an emerging public health crisis. That’s the day Gov. Jerry...

An empty, sealed bag labeled as evidence.
By Ashley Southall, New York Times | 10.19.2017

Freezing winds whipped the snow-covered coastline of Brooklyn’s Calvert Vaux Park on the day two years ago that a severed...

Close-up of an eye retina.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 10.19.2017

And she isn’t the only one.

Last year, a 77-year-old woman traveled to a clinic in Georgia to have stem...

Blueprint sketch of a human head against a grid.
By Ilya Sutskever and Dario Amodei, Wall Street Journal | 10.18.2017

How to avoid the nightmare scenario of artificial intelligence? According to researchers from Elon Musk’s OpenAI, the trick is teaching

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