DIY Genome Editing at Only $2 a Pop
Avoiding regulation, DIYBio becomes cheaper and more available.
Avoiding regulation, DIYBio becomes cheaper and more available.
The North Carolina–based biotech startup Pairwise will begin selling genetically modified and better-tasting mustard greens.
Is that kind of gene-editing unethical?
Despite bioethical handwringing, they pose no special risks to future generations
Why should an international panel of experts get to decide if you will be allowed to gene-edit your kids?
"If my kids lived in Africa, I'd say, 'Go for it as quickly as possible,'" says researcher.
A new international commission will consider the pros and cons of human genome editing.
Parents, not bureaucrats, have the moral authority to decide whether to gene-edit prospective progeny.
Revving up pepper hotness in tomatoes using CRISPR genome-editing
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Flinging around such terms is not helpful and does not advance the debate.
If it's safe, then it's ethical. No need for a global moratorium.
"A backward step, not progress"
I made antibiotic-resistant E. coli in my kitchen, and the world didn't end.
"Governments should follow the principle of regulatory parsimony," two bioethicists argue.
Anti-designer baby bioethicists call for "an immediate global ban."
Breakthrough that could cure genetic diseases before embryos are implanted in their mothers' wombs.
Cures for HIV/AIDS and specifically targeted antibiotics
"If DNA is a drug, then all life on Earth is high."
Blockchain, CRISPR, and Machine Learning
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.
A look at several mosquito-modification projects and the political and cultural pushback they're facing.
Swedish researcher denounced by bioconservatives for using CRISPR genome-editing on human embryos
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
State mandated eugenics is always evil.
Ordering people to reproduce in only government approved ways is tyrannical and unethical.
Researchers will use CRISPR gene-editing technique to explore how human embryos develop.
A scitech research and policy round up for January 8, 2016
A scitech research and policy roundup
"If scientists can dream of a genetic manipulation, CRISPR can now make it happen"
Anticipating the amazing innovations made possible by CRISPR
On the Larry Mantle Show today in Los Angeles
Bioethicists are again trying to stand athwart progress, yelling stop
Is it immoral to slow progress toward curing diseases and creating more environmentally benign products?
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
Bioethicists and scientists who say otherwise are wrong.
Now watch the bioluddites swarm out of the policy woodwork.
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