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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 Daniela Hernandez, Fusion | 12.21.2015
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Type the word scientist into Google image search, and you’ll overwhelmingly get a bunch of white faces in...

By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee | 12.20.2015
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The two calves that grace a muddy pen on the UC Davis campus will never grow horns typical...

By Eric Jaffe, City Lab | 12.18.2015
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Whether intelligence is more the product of nature or nurture has long fascinated American social scientists and the...

By Kashmir Hill, Fusion | 12.18.2015
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In 2012, Silicon Valley millionaire Ravi Kumra was murdered during a home-invasion robbery. During the investigation of the...

By Jack Stilgoe and Sarah Hartley, The Guardian [UK] | 12.17.2015
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In October this year, we were both called as witnesses to the House of Lords Science and Technology...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.17.2015
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Directors of the California stem cell agency this morning approved an $890 million plan for the next five...
By Rae Ellen Bichell, National Public Radio | 12.17.2015
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Despite striking ethnic disparities in the incidence and mortality of diseases like cancer and respiratory disease, minorities are...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 12.17.2015
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For Heidi Rehm, it looked like a straightforward case. Her lab at Partners Healthcare offers tests for...