Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit | WIRED
Biohacker Josie Zyner’s new company, Los Angeles Project, is creating a new generation of gene-edited pets. The team has used Crispr to add a gene...
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Biohacking our way to health with robot cells | Michael Levin
This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine:This interview is an episode …
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Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.
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How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can...
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Opinion | Should we edit our children’s genes? Would it be cruel not to? - The New York Times
Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ...
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The case for genetically engineering a smarter human-cyborg population
The case for genetically engineering a smarter human-cyborg population to avoid the threat of existential catastrophe. Radical cognitive enhance...
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Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks - by Phil Torres
Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing has 7 ratings and 1 review. Tucker said: Good overview of how to go about thinking of existential risks ...
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Those cute labradoodles mask a dark, disturbing truth || NY Post
With its cutesy curls and plaintive eyes, it’s no wonder the labradoodle became America’s second-favorite dog in 2010. But the man who first inven...
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How Big Data Is Changing Genetic Research - Digg
New biomedical techniques, like next-generation genome sequencing, are creating vast amounts of data and transforming the scientific landscape. The...
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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies - MIT Technology Review
A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.
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The promise and perils of synthetic biology - Redesigning life - The Economist
FOR THE past four billion years or so the only way for life on Earth to produce a sequence of DNA—a gene—was by copying a sequence it already had t...
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China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced - MIT Technology Review
New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn ...
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New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics | Science | AAAS
Tiny proteins help power muscles and provide the toxic punch to many venoms
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15 Worrying Things About the CRISPR Babies Scandal - The Atlantic
The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details.
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First Gene-Edited Babies Have Allegedly Been Born in China - The Atlantic
A researcher’s claim that two CRISPR-edited baby girls have been born has been met with widespread condemnation from scientists and ethicists alike.
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The DIY designer baby project funded with Bitcoin - MIT Technology Review
Cryptocurrency, biohacking, and the fantastic plan for transgenic humans.
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What are the ethics of using gene-editing kits like CRISPR? - Vox - Recode
The ethics of DNA editing are being established years after CRISPR technology has been available to the public...
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Engineering the Genome: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Wave of Medicine - a16z
Technology’s ability to rewrite our genetic code is becoming one of the most powerful therapeutic arsenals of all time. We’ve gone from small molec...
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Controversial U.S. bill would lift Supreme Court ban on patenting human genes | Science | AAAS
Backers say changes needed to spur innovation, but critics disagree
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Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life? - The New York Times
In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature.
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He Jiankui faces three years in prison for CRISPR babies - MIT Technology Review
The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial.
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64x Bio Emerges from Stealth to Drive an Evolution in Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing
64x Bio announced today that they are emerging from stealth and are describing for the first time their proprietary VectorSelectTM platform and vision
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KQED Learn | Discussions: The Gene : An Intimate History and Eugenics
How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ...
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The Second Coming of RNA Medicines - Andreessen Horowitz
The COVID-19 vaccines were a high-stakes fulfillment of the key promise RNA companies had made — that once we know what protein needs to be targete...
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