Tag: biotech

• The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny

  August 9, 2020

  The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the coronavirus and must immediately begin a two-week period of isolation. https://thecorrespondent.com/621/the-original-big-tech-is-working-closer-than-ever-with-governments-to-combat-coronavirus-with-no-scrutiny/81373317498-76dea099 more ›

• Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

  January 12, 2020

  By Andreessen Horowitz This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pieces in the media… more ›

• Don’t change your DNA at home, says America’s first CRISPR law

  August 10, 2019

  It’s going to be illegal in California to sell consumers “gene therapy kits” unless they carry a warning that says not to use them on yourself. Just one wrinkle: we’re… more ›

• Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes? – Air Mail

  August 4, 2019

  Biology is the new tech. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-7-27/should-the-rich-be-allowed-to-buy-the-best-genes more ›

• Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding

  December 7, 2018

  Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding Turns out mastering chess and Go was just for starters. On 2 December, the Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind took top honors in the 13th… more ›

• Chinese Scientist Who Says He Edited Babies’ Genes Defends His Work

  November 29, 2018

  Chinese Scientist Who Says He Edited Babies’ Genes Defends His Work A Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies said at a conference on… more ›

• Reversed Aging, Pig Organs, and the Future of Humankind

  July 22, 2018

  Reversed Aging, Pig Organs, and the Future of Humankind For a man playing God, George Church certainly looks the part. Over the past 45 years, the Harvard geneticist and his… more ›

• Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform

  May 3, 2018

  Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform » In some ways, Synthego looks like any other Silicon Valley startup. Inside its beige business park facilities, a five-minute drive from… more ›

• Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide, a global…

  March 3, 2018

  “Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide, a global warming gas, into carbohydrates and other carbon-containing polymers, which sequester the carbon so that they’re no longer global warming gases. They turn it into… more ›

• Rewriting the Code of Life

  December 26, 2016

  Rewriting the Code of Life » Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island. more ›