DIY Genome Editing at Only $2 a Pop
Avoiding regulation, DIYBio becomes cheaper and more available.
Avoiding regulation, DIYBio becomes cheaper and more available.
Most states collect DNA from felony arrestees pretrial. They should need a warrant to do so.
One hundred Nobel laureates agree: The campaign against biotech-enhanced golden rice is a "crime against humanity."
Bryan Johnson, venture capitalist and founder of Blueprint, discusses his $2 million a year effort to reverse aging on Just Asking Questions.
Health reporter Emily Kopp and biologist Alex Washburne discuss new documents that detail plans to manipulate bat-borne coronaviruses in Wuhan on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
A biotech lab led by a lightly fictionalized alternate version of Rob Lowe works to save the world.
As beef prices increase, biotech could provide a cheaper and tasty alternative.
At last, a chance to watch elite athletes openly taking advantage of modern science.
The North Carolina–based biotech startup Pairwise will begin selling genetically modified and better-tasting mustard greens.
Most cancer diagnoses and deaths are due to cancers for which there are no recommended screening tests.
Why the businessman launched a long shot campaign for the presidency.
A selection of Reason's most incisive articles on population, pollution, resource depletion, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and the ideological environmentalists' penchant for peddling doom.
Federal A.I. regulation now will hinder progress, consumer choice, and market competition.
Nita A. Farahany's The Battle for Your Brain shows how neurotech can help, or hurt, human liberty.
Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp.
Thanks to some amazing recent crop biotech breakthroughs
All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.
Real factories are beginning to replace factory farms.
Expect anti-biotech activists to oppose this important development.
Nobel laureates properly call activist group's campaign against crop biotechnology a "crime against humanity."
The technique "could potentially help address problems of poverty and food insecurity at a global scale."
The process uses 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production.
Science writer Steven Johnson, author of the new book Extra Life, on vaccines, medical breakthroughs, and life after Covid.
And it's already sold out.
Medical breakthroughs mean we will never again suffer through diseases like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
The upsides and the possible downsides of transmissible vaccines .
The goal is to drastically reduce the population of disease-carrying bloodsuckers.
From "stay hungry, stay foolish" to "try everything, take nothing off the table."
The former Merry Prankster and Whole Earth Catalog founder talks about psychedelics, computers, bringing back woolly mammoths, and his new documentary.
Let's restore this giant to America's forests.
And produced with a much lower environmental footprint
The USDA under the Trump administration streamlined some outdated and scientifically unwarranted regulations of modern biotech crops.
Cell-based meat cultivation is on its way.
Especially if the COVID-19 inoculations are deployed speedily and accepted widely.
And there looks to be more good vaccine news coming.
Anti-biotech activists cite the precautionary principle to maintain chestnut tree-free forests.
Growing more food on less acreage means more land for nature.
The chemical company has agreed to create a $10 billion settlement fund
Stocks rise steeply on good news about mRNA vaccines.
No time to waste; do it sooner rather than later.
DIY biologists propose creating a public domain SARS-CoV-2 vaccine with $25,000 in funding.
We will soon learn if humanity's increasing biotechnical prowess can prevent a modern pandemic.
"Everything that's bad is politics; everything that's good is the market."
The difference between two identical genes—one edited and the other a natural mutation—is entirely metaphysical.