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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 clock's edges are shown spiraling into several other clocks.
By Daniel Oberhaus, VICE Motherboard | 11.21.2016

Last week the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which consists of 18 scientists and policy experts...

Illustrative art that represents faceless human individuals standing in line like dominoes. Some in the back have been knocked over and may potentially fall onto the next person in the line.
By Sara Novic, VICE | 11.18.2016

"'All men are created equal.' Well, it's not true."

That's President-elect Donald Trump, a clip unearthed for a PBS documentary...

A display of a human portrait face, from Heather Dewey-Hagborg's 2012 art project called “Stranger Visions.”
By Jason Koebler, VICE Motherboard | 11.18.2016

Gene editing and new biological engineering techniques have allowed our minds to run wild: In the last few years, we’ve...

John Holdren is pictured against a solid mustard yellow background.
By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 11.18.2016

In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed physicist H. Guyford Stever as the first Director of the Office of Science and...

A bubble of soap--the size of an adult hand-- is being blown through a wand.
By Andrew Burmon, Inverse | 11.18.2016

When the Democratic Party gave up on technology, progressivism malfunctioned. Now, technophile liberals are preparing to fix a movement.

In...

A pregnant person stands close to a baby's crib.
By Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The New York Times | 11.17.2016

BEIJING — The Singapore government has deployed financial incentives and even Mentos mints to increase births. In Russia, more money...

An archived, black and white photo of David Starr Jordan who advocated eugenic practices.
By Jacqueline Lee, San Jose Mercury News | 11.17.2016

Incorporating the topic of eugenics and the city’s history with that practice into lesson plans at Palo Alto schools is an idea...

Microscopic image of nerological cells-- as an example of nondividing cells.
By Ian Johnston, The Independent [UK] | 11.16.2016

Scientists have discovered a new way to edit DNA that could fix “broken genes” in the brain, cure previously incurable...