Tag: genetics

• Our Pandemic Summer

  April 14, 2020

  The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself. Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET on April 14, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/ more ›

• 💭🦠 Six ways coronavirus will change our world

  February 9, 2020

  The pandemic virus, 2019-nCoV, is testing many of the assumptions of a highly interconnected, modern, globalised world. This 120nm virus, small to us, large by viral standards, is shining a… 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 ›

• It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning

  May 28, 2019

  DNA tweaks won’t fix our problems. Editors’ note: This is the first installment in a new series, “Op-Eds From the Future,” in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• The Reordering of Medicine

  June 14, 2016

  The Reordering of Medicine » When you wake up in the morning You’ll have a brand new feeling And you’ll find yourself healing -Daniel Johnston The nature of the way… more ›