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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 Joshua Rothman, New Yorker | 07.14.2015
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The defining scene of “Sense8,” the new sci-fi drama on Netflix, comes about halfway through the first season...

By Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The New York Times | 07.13.2015
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Before the crisis that started in 2007, both of us believed that the financial system was fragile and...

By Rebecca Strong, BostInno | 07.13.2015
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Today, there are no shortage of options when it comes to starting a family without traditional conception. But...

By Azeen Ghorayshi, BuzzFeed | 07.12.2015
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Last month, 30-year-old Alicia Routh got an email from the fertility clinic where she had previously donated dozens...

By Andrew Gelman & Kaiser Fung, The Daily Beast | 07.11.2015
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A few weeks ago in this space, we wrote about the bias toward sensationalist science reporting:  lazy...

By Andrew Gelman & Kaiser Fung, The Daily Beast | 07.11.2015
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A few weeks ago in this space, we wrote about the bias toward sensationalist science reporting: lazy...

By Celeste Orr, The Guardian | 07.11.2015
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“Designer babies” seems like a concept from a dystopian future, but they’re here now: would-be parents who utilize...

By Jonathan Gitlin, ArsTechnica | 07.08.2015

A recent Ars feature story about genetic screening generated quite a lively debate in the discussion thread. However, it also...