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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 Karen Weintraub, STAT | 07.08.2016

PORTLAND, Ore. — The next great advance in fertility treatments may rest with five young monkeys in a lab outside of...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 07.08.2016

Immune therapies have been hailed as the future of cancer treatments, with new drugs racking up excellent clinical results by...

By Derek Lowe, Science AAAS | 07.08.2016

Late yesterday afternoon, Matthew Herper broke the news that Juno Therapeutics had had their CAR-T leukemia trial put on hold...

By Chuck Stern, BTRtoday | 07.08.2016

What if we could fix a broken moral compass? According to bioethicist and sociologist James J. Hughes of the Institute...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 07.08.2016

Federal regulators have barred Elizabeth Holmes, chief executive of Theranos, from owning or operating a medical laboratory for at least...

By Kevin Ellis, Shelby Star | 07.07.2016

A bill passed by the the U.S. House this week would help victims of forced sterilization programs from being hurt...

By Ryan Gabrielson & Topher Sanders, The New York Times | 07.07.2016

Amy Albritton can’t remember if her boyfriend signaled when he changed lanes late that August afternoon in 2010. But suddenly...

By Sarah Hartley, The Conversation | 07.07.2016

Genetically modified crops are safe for human consumption and have the potential to feed the world and improve human health...