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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...

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By Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian | 09.28.2025

Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could...

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By Katherine Bourzac, Nature | 09.25.2025

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as...

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By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli, The New York Times | 09.24.2025

For some Greenlanders, sorry isn’t enough.

The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s...

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By Marianne Lamers, NEMO Kennislink [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.23.2025

Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...

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By Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian | 09.23.2025

In March 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen was traveling through Chicago’s Midway airport when they were stopped by US border...

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By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.22.2025

On May 26, Tracy Atteberry checked in to the hospital at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The...

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By Charmayne Allison, ABC News | 09.21.2025

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists.

He had...