FrankenMoths Attack Organic Farmers in Upstate New York
Or so some hyperventilating scaremongering nitwits would have you think.
Genetic Engineering
Ronald Bailey Says Let the Techstorm Rip
A review of A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control
Ronald Bailey Hangs Out WIth the Bioethicists at the BEINGS 2015 Summit
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Block Biotech Progress or Embrace It? Bioethicists Debate What's to Come.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
Gene-Editing Human Embryos Is Ethical
Bioethicists and scientists who say otherwise are wrong.
Nobel Laureates Call For Halting Scientific and Ethical Progress
Permissionless innovation works best for both scientific and moral progress.
Another Pointless Human Gene-Editing Moratorium
Now watch the bioluddites swarm out of the policy woodwork.
Three Parent Babies Approved By British Parliament. Hooray!
Naturally the usual bioluddites are eager to stop progress.
Let's Play God!
Gene drives could be a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
'Editing' Life With Gene Drives is a Great Way to Play God
Researchers develop a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
America and Thailand Are Global Leaders in This Kind of Reproductive Freedom
Many countries around the world ban in-vitro fertilization practices that allow for the selection of a child's sex.
Should Parents Be Allowed To Know Their Fetus Will Get Alzheimer's?
The moral case for designer babies
Replacing Street Lights With Glowing Trees
A tale of crowdsourced DIY bioengineering
Scientists Alter Mosquitoes' Attraction to Humans with Gene Switch
Can have them turn to other animals instead. Sucks for those other animals.
Science Wins in California - Proposition 37 Fails
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this morning that Proposition 37 that - on specious "right-to-know" grounds - would have required labeling foods containing ingredients from biotech enhanced crops has failed.
Cow Genetically Engineered to Produce Non-Allergic Milk
New Zealand scientists say the moo cow they engineered produces milk that lacks a protein some people are allergic too
California's GMO Labeling Law Isn't the Answer
How Prop 37 restricts speech and needlessly meddles in consumer choice.
Congress Moves to Ban Frankenfish
Special interests trump science in the debate over transgenic salmon.
