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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...

Two young women of color carry shopping bags on their shoulders, and look down at their phone in their hands.
By Liz Stinson, Wired | 04.12.2017

The other day, while scrolling through Instagram, an advertisement caught my eye. This happens often enough. Instagram’s ads, uniformly square...

Demonstrators hold a banner stating "Trans Solidarity for justice, against transphobia." Other signs and protesters follow
By Liam Stack, New York Times | 04.12.2017

Changing the name or gender on a government-issued document like a driver’s license has long included a frightening step for...

A book lies open in the middle, propped up by a book stand. Out of focus, in the background are several other books and religious artifacts.
By Los Angeles Times | 04.11.2017

Scientist have begun to bring together stem cells that reorganize themselves to form ebryo-like structures. It won’t be long before...

A smeared coffee mug sits on a little platter beside an opened laptop computer with charts.
By Mary Ann Mason and Tom Ekman, Wired [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2017

While sperm has been successfully frozen for decades, it wasn’t until 1999, when flash-freezing procedures were introduced, that eggs could...

A woman of color holds a demonstration sign reading, "George Orwell, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood--They warned us!"
By Anne Fausto-Sterling, Gap Junction Science | 04.11.2017

The January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington, DC was quite the eye-opener. I am not a naïve marcher, since...

23andMe logo featuring a pink and green chromosome.
By Turna Ray, Genome Web | 04.11.2017

The top organization in the US responsible for developing genetic testing guidelines is not on board with the US Food...

A 23andMe box is opened, revealing the spit kit equipment.
By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz | 04.10.2017

Doctors are losing their role as the gatekeeper of our health information, for better or worse.

Last week, the US...

Jeff Sessions, a white male, wear a pair of glasses. He sits behind a desk and points a finger, about to make a statement.
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | 04.10.2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has...