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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 Jeff Lyon, JAMA | 10.18.2017

As CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–Cas9) and other gene-editing technologies hasten the feasibility of effective somatic and germline...

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By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 10.18.2017

You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was...

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By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News | 10.17.2017

Outrage over the high cost of cancer care has focused on skyrocketing drug prices, including the $475,000 price tag for...

A young woman of color with an intravenous line is dressed in a hospital gown, and lays on the hospital bed, looking over to a newborn child that is supported by a gloved hand against the back of their head.
By Erin Blakemore, Washington Post | 10.15.2017

If you work at such places as Google, Facebook and Apple, your health insurance includes an unusual feature: coverage for...

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By Charles Piller, STAT | 10.12.2017

The anarchist grew animated as he explained his plan to subvert a pillar of global capitalism by teaching the poor...

 Two male scientists wearing lab coats in a laboratory looking at an illuminated board, reading the genetic code in the DNA.
By Lauren Kirschner, ProPublica | 10.11.2017

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced last week that it is launching a new study of certain types...

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By Adele Peters, Fast Company | 10.10.2017

“What we’ve got here is some DNA, and this is a syringe,” Josiah Zayner tells a room full of synthetic...

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By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 10.09.2017

The battle between sports cheats and testers is poised to enter a whole new arena. The World Anti-Doping Agency has...