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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...

Hall displaying several Nobel Prize Laureates.
By Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine | 06.09.2017

The Repository for Germinal Choice was supposed to produce super-kids from the sperm of white high achievers

Robert Klark Graham...

Several containers, with clear liquid are placed side by side in a test tube rack.
By Charles Piller, STAT | 06.08.2017

Federal investigators searched a California DNA testing lab Wednesday and hauled away boxes of documents as part of a health...

A wall displays letters " ATCG" in various colors.
By Dave Roos, Seeker [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.06.2017

A new study offers a cautionary tale for using the widely hyped gene-editing tool CRISPR on people.

The gene-editing technology...

Historical marker in Raleigh, North Carolina H116 which states, "Eugenics Board: State action led to the sterilization by choice or coercion of over 7,600 people, 1933-1973. Met after 1939 one block E."
By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press | 06.06.2017

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Some surviving relatives of people involuntarily sterilized by the state of North Carolina decades ago can't...

A mail-in kit, containing four long cotton swabs, placed in an envelope, with place holders for each cotton swab.
By Daniel Munro, Maclean's | 06.05.2017

The risks from home-based genetic testing kits to privacy as well as people’s health appear far greater than the supposed

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Black and white photo of a child's hand touching a parent's palm.
By Lindsay King-Miller, Rewire | 06.02.2017

Protecting abortion access for her, especially as conservatives try to push the definition of "life" earlier and earlier, feels just

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A hammer is shown in the middle, with several nails attached to a wooden board. The nails are dented and bent.
By Jim Kozubek, Boston Globe | 06.01.2017

Methadone Mile is a stretch of road along Massachusetts Avenue that begins in the South End and stretches north to...

A pregnant woman of color sits at a bench and table, looking down. Behind her, there is a lake and a tree trunk.
By Bernice Yeung and Jonathan Jones, Reveal News | 06.01.2017

In 1992, Congress passed a law to help protect in vitro fertilization patients after a series of scandals. It created...