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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 public hearing is in session, angled as if the viewer was in the audience facing the representative officials.
By Alexandra Ossola, Scientific American | 09.21.2016

Earlier this month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened its doors to public commentary on its newest guidelines on...

A clock is featured in the background of a stack of coins.
By Eyder Peralta, NPR | 09.21.2016

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced one of its biggest investments to date: It is ponying up more than $3...

Two teammates of a tug-of-war game are pictured, with competitive looks on their faces as they cling to the rope. Onlookers look entertained.
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 09.20.2016

Getting stuff right is normally regarded as science’s central aim. But a new analysis has raised the existential spectre that...

Crime scene tape, gloves, and packages of evidence are stacked in a pile on a desk.
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | 09.20.2016

Widely used methods to trace complex DNA samples, bullets, tread and bite marks to criminal defendants fall short of scientific...

Patient's arm is injected.
By David Wagner, KPBS | 09.20.2016

Jim Gass made sure to record the moment in an iPhone video because he’d paid tens of thousands of dollars...

Canadian flag flies against the winter air.
By Yvonne Bombard, Ronald Cohn & Stephen Scherer, The Globe and Mail [Canada] | 09.19.2016

Canada is close to catching up with other Western countries in protecting the most fundamental of information: our genetic code...

Darkened image of a pregnant woman's torso, showing only a side view of her stomach. She is holding the bottom of her stomach.
By Julie McCarthy, NPR | 09.18.2016

Isha Devi hails from Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, built by a grieving king for a beloved queen. Isha...

Illustrated picture of a patient inside of a doctor's office.
By Michael Cook, BioEdge [citing CGS' Elliot Hosman] | 09.16.2016

This chirpy video about genetic engineering explains the complex present and speculative future quite well although it probably takes too...