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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...

Female hospital patient lays in bed appearing asleep. Beside her is a TV.
By Tracy Middleton, Women's Health magazine | 04.24.2017

Genetic testing, once the realm of science fiction, has come so far that millions of physicians, and their patients, use...

Close up photo of a globe, turned on its side to display the United States and Mexico.
By César Palacios-González, BioNews | 04.24.2017

It is not every day that we can examine the details of the first use of a new reproductive technology...

Portrait of Henrietta Lacks in a coat with a male partner, David. wearing a suit.
By Hannah Giorgis, The Ringer | 04.24.2017

The Oprah-led HBO film is a moving portrayal of a black family’s struggle for justice. But is being seen enough?

When...

A kitchen frying pan holds several cut up mushrooms.
By Brooke Borel, Slate | 04.21.2017

But revamping the way we look at products created by genetic engineering and CRISPR is more difficult than you might

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Several protesters hold signs behind a long banner stating "March for Science."
By J. Ama Mantey, The Root | 04.20.2017

Despite overwhelming data demonstrating that Donald Trump rode a wave of white resentment across age, gender, income and education levels...

Five soldiers are dressed in protective gear, seeming to scout the area of land. The air appears thick and musty.
By Peter Apps, Reuters | 04.20.2017

With the threat of chemical weapons in Syria and nuclear arms in North Korea, the risk of biological weapons has...

Black and white photo of an hour glass, with sand falling.
By Bradley J. Fikes, San Diego Tribune [quotes Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.20.2017

Are Californians getting their money’s worth for the $3 billion they invested in stem cell science in 2004? Is there...

A red-glowing exit sign hangs above a hall way's ceiling.
By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 04.20.2017

The biotech company behind the Western world's first gene therapy and the most expensive prescription medicine in history is giving...