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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 Donna Dickenson, New Scientist | 01.13.2014

IT'S 2008. The New Yorker is chronicling a celebrity "spit party", at which notables – nicknamed the "Spitterati" – eject...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.13.2014
Here comes genomics, Take 2.

Pharmaceutical companies invested heavily in genetic studies in the frenzy after the sequencing of the...
By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 01.11.2014

It sounded like a miracle of science and convenience: swab your cheek and drop the saliva sample in the mailbox...

By The Link, The Link | 01.11.2014

VANCOUVER – Community and health leaders are calling for an open dialogue about the cultural values that lead to sex...

By Tim Franks, BBC News | 01.11.2014

This could be a battle like no other in sport. The authorities are so concerned, they have been preparing for...

By Osagie Obasogie, Scientific American | 01.10.2014

Adapted from Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind, by Osagie K. Obasogie. Published by...

By Sadie Gurman, Denver Post | 01.10.2014
A malfunction in a DNA processing machine led to the scrambling of samples from 11 Denver police burglary cases, officials...
By Nigel Duara, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 01.10.2014
The Oregon Medical Board has issued a rare emergency suspension of a Eugene physician's license after the doctor conducted experimental...