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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 Jane Qiu, Nature News | 07.12.2016

On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl. Along the...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 07.12.2016

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave Juno Therapeutics the all-clear to resume testing an experimental cancer treatment, just days after shutting down the...

By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 07.12.2016

Shortly after 8:00 this morning, more than two dozen people filled the small conference room at the National Academies’ Keck...

By Ava Kofman, Alternet | 07.11.2016

Anyone planning a visit to Kuwait later this year may be in for a shock when they find they'll have...

By Ted Greiner, Independent Science News | 07.11.2016

What better way to discredit your critics than to rope in 107 naive Nobel Prize winners (all without relevant expertise)...

By Janet Phelan, New Eastern Outlook | 07.11.2016

Dual-use may be best understood by considering the functions of a knife. Used against an enemy, a knife can be...

By Tim Lewis, The Guardian | 07.10.2016

Moments after giving birth, her son not yet in her arms, Lolita Wästerlund had an urgent fear. “Does he have...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 07.08.2016

Two top executives and dozens of other employees of Juno Therapeutics, the company that on Thursday was forced to halt...