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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...

Syringe with needle
By Susan Scutti, CNN | 11.01.2016

Both men and women are responsible for pregnancy, yet the burden of preventing it often falls on one gender. Women...

A dart on a dart board largely misses the bull's-eye  target.
By Sharon Begley, STAT | 10.31.2016

Enthusiasm for precision medicinefrom the White House down to everyday physicians, is at an all-time high. But serious...

Mary Mallon, foreground, became known as Typhoid Mary and died after being quarantined for 23 years. (Wikimedia)
By Donald G. McNeil, Jr., The New York Times | 10.29.2016

The alleged “Patient Zero” of the American AIDS epidemic — a French Canadian flight attendant named Gaétan Dugas, who died...

Landscape photo of green field and a blue sky with clouds.
By Danny Hakim, The New York Times | 10.29.2016

LONDON — The controversy over genetically modified crops has long focused on largely unsubstantiated fears that they are unsafe to...

Colin Kaepernick dressed in 49'er uniform, is glancing to his right shoulder.
By Shaun King, New York Daily News | 10.29.2016

"Dad. Does Colin still have a game on Sunday?"

The question was a smart one for any football fan to...

George Church is the central subject of the photo, with book shelves in the background.
By Ike Swelitz, Stat News | 10.28.2016

The research group behind an effort to synthesize a human genome this week released more information about its plans, including a draft...

8 illustrations of sperm cells meet in the middle of a surrounding circle of British flags. rolled up.
By Laura Lea, BBC | 10.27.2016

The UK's first national sperm bank has stopped recruiting donors less than two years after its launch, it has emerged

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Lamp post sign reads "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor's Center." On the building is a sign that is directed to the sun light. Its shadow reads: "Today's problems are solvable"
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.27.2016

Nonprofits and corporations are in a race to fight dengue and Zika.

The fight against dengue and Zika in Latin...