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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...

By Daphne Martschenko, The Conversation | 07.26.2016

Researchers at King’s College London say they are able to predict educational achievement from DNA alone. Using a new type...

By Kaleigh Rogers, VICE Motherboard | 07.26.2016

Learning about the genetic markers stored in your DNA can be an illuminating experience, even a life-altering one. Now...

By Emily Bazar, The Washington Post | 07.26.2016

Linda Smith learned last summer that she was losing significant cartilage in her knees, a consequence of a lifetime spent...

By David Masci, Pew Research Center | 07.26.2016

Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. People have been trying to enhance their physical and mental...

By Ed Cara, Medical Daily | 07.26.2016

Fond as we are of superheroes on the big screen, most of us would stop short of actually becoming one via...

By Elizabeth Woyke, MIT Technology Review | 07.25.2016

Colon cancer is less common in India than in the U.S., but it tends to affect younger people and...

By Arlene Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 07.25.2016

At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing...

By Jocelyn Stried, Margaret Hayden, Rahul Nayajk & Cameron Nutt, STAT | 07.25.2016

In the wake of the brutal killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Small, and police officers in Dallas and...