How Worried Should You Be About the Wuhan Coronavirus?
We will soon learn if humanity's increasing biotechnical prowess can prevent a modern pandemic.
Biotechnology
Why Is the Media So Negative?
"Everything that's bad is politics; everything that's good is the market."
E.U. Regulators Can't Detect the Gene-Edited Crops They Banned
The difference between two identical genes—one edited and the other a natural mutation—is entirely metaphysical.
Bayer to Waste $5.6 Billion Trying to Appease Anti-Pesticide Activists
This will fail and more pressing problems will be neglected
Stossel: Don't Be Scared of Designer Babies
Gene-editing technology will eventually allow parents to alter their future offspring's intelligence, height, eye color, and more. And that's worth celebrating.
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Monopoly Seed Companies
The presidential hopeful doesn't realize that government biotech crop regulation helped to create the monopoly in the first place.
Movie Review: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Elizabeth Holmes, queen of lies
'Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most'
Title of the Nature Human Behavior article cited above sadly says it all.
How Can I Preorder a Crate of Spicy Tomatoes?
Revving up pepper hotness in tomatoes using CRISPR genome-editing
Bioengineering Photosynthesis Boosts Crop Growth by 40 Percent
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
Despite Climate Change, There Will Be Enough Food for 10 Billion in 2050
Food security is not the problem, but nutrition security could be.
Cultured Meat Turkey to Your Table?
A regulatory pact between FDA and USDA may help speed up getting lab-grown meats to your local supermarket.
High Yield Modern Farming Better for the Environment, Says Nature Study
Low yield organic farming uses up lots more land and harms biodiversity
Idiots on the European Court of Justice Rule Modern Gene-Edited Crops Must Be Overregulated
"A backward step, not progress"
Freaking Out Over 'Designer Babies,' Again
An NPR report on "three-parent babies" in Ukraine provokes bioethical handwringing.
Malthusian Specter Pushed Back Further: Crops Engineered to Use 25 Percent Less Water
Yet another limit to growth recedes into the distance
Victor Frankenstein Is the Real Monster
Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200.
New York Times Columnist Is Worried About What's in His Urine
The FDA debunks his fears.
Regulations Prevent Some People from Using Google Arts & Culture's Portrait-Matching Feature
Illinois and Texas think biometric identifiers are a lawsuit waiting to happen.
GMO Opponents Are Immoral, Argues Purdue University President Mitch Daniels
It's past time to tell your anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to kill poor people.
GMO Virus Could Save Florida's Orange Groves
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reportedly approve a GMO virus to fight citrus greening disease.
Permissionless Biotech Crop and Livestock Innovation
The USDA just dumped Obama administration's proposed ridiculous biotech crop regulations; the FDA should quickly follow suit.
DIY Biohackers Are Editing Genes in Garages and Kitchens
With the latest breakthroughs in the life sciences, who needs a lab or degree?
'Becoming Machines Is Part of Our Destiny,' Says Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan [Podcast]
The "California Dream of Transhumanism" on why he's pro-robot, running for governor of California, and still angry about getting busted at 18 for selling pot.
Transhumanism and Libertarianism Are Entirely Compatible
People seeking to flourish should have the freedom to enhance their bodies and minds
CRISPR and the Dawn of the New Biotech Revolution
Cures for HIV/AIDS and specifically targeted antibiotics
Is the Cure for Aging Just Around the Corner?
Here's hoping that we've not been born one generation too early.
Rejuvenation By Killing Off Senescent Cells and by Boosting DNA Repair: New at Reason
Two new studies report experiments that successfully reverse aging
Is the Quest to 'Solve Death' Selfishly Immoral?
Some bioethicists think that 75 years of life is enough for you.
Scott Gottlieb: Trump's Nominee for Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Understands how over-regulation is slowing down innovation in medicines and foods
An Epidemic of Bad Epidemiology
Getting Risk Right is a potent antidote to the toxic misinformation peddled by activist scaremongers
Will Gene-Editing Technologies Spark the Next Cold War? They Already Have.
The folks behind CRISPR gene editing were runners-up for Time's Person of the Year. Their creation may win the future for secular China.
Time to Declare Aging a Disease and Get On with Curing It: New at Reason
Who wants to live to be a 100? Someone who is 99 years old. Especially if he feels like a 25 year-old.
Record Temperatures and Record Grain Yields
Climate model projections of wheat yields are just stupid
Time Magazine Promotes Superstitious Chemophobia
Toxicologists liken the endocrine disruption hypothesis to homeopathy.
Hooray for Factory Farming!
It's is good for the environment and it feeds people too.
'Designer Baby' Scaremongering Never Gets Old, Does It?
Swedish researcher denounced by bioconservatives for using CRISPR genome-editing on human embryos
Hooray! Transhumanism Is Inevitable: New at Reason
A review of Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives
Senate Passes GMO Labeling Bill: Activists Are Apoplectic!
Preempts labeling requirements in Vermont and other states
