Category Archives: genetic engineering
Toward designer babies and creating (human?) genomes
Posted by CRISPR, designer babies, dna, eggs, Evolution, featured, gene editing, genetic engineering, genetics, Genome, GP-write, health care, HGP-write, Human Evolution, mice, On Science Blogs, Research, sperm, stem cells
inScience heroes of Flint’s lead water crisis
Posted by brain, citizen science, featured, Flint MI, genetic engineering, health care, lead, On Science Blogs, Politics, Research, united states, water, water supply
inIs Lander’s revisionist CRISPR history sexist?
Food fights: the new dietary guidelines, fats, salt, sugar, edible GMOs
Posted by carbohydrates, fat, featured, food, genetic engineering, genetics, Genome, GMO, health care, medically unexplained symptoms, obesity, On Science Blogs, Politics, Research, salt, soda, sugar, united states
inThe cancer moonshot and other future science fantasies
More on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs
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inPsychology cleans up its act, plus biohackers embrace gene editing, CRISPR, cyborgs
THE MESS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER SCIENCES TOO You’d think that the just-published Science paper, recounting a massive attempt at replication of 100 selected research projects published in the top psychology journals in 2008, would be cause for much beating … Continue reading
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inPinker’s gene editing rant ignored most bioethics issues; debunking stoner Shakespeare
Do you suppose Steven Pinker’s broadside against professional bioethics oversight of CRISPR and other forms of gene editing–Pinker’s command to bioethics was brutally inflexible: “Get out of the way”–will change bioethics for the better? Or gene editing, for that matter? … Continue reading
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inObamacare lives and Kennewick Man is a Native American
WHEW! The Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) subsidies to help people buy health insurance got saved by the US Supreme Court after all, with the somewhat unexpected help (unexpected by me, anyway) of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here’s … Continue reading
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inCoop’s Scoop: Do-It-Yourself, Together
Could a DIYbio lab be an alternative YMCA? A DIYbio Lab is a community space to exercise your mind instead of your body. Instead of learning to swim, opportunities for physical fitness, and socializing via team sports at the YMCA, … Continue reading
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