Is Gene Editing Causing a Revival of Eugenics?
Last week the National Institutes of Health cleared the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) for its first clinical... Read More
Science in Congress: A Review of the Recent Hearing on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering
Though the technology remains years, decades, or centuries away—depending on who you ask—debates about the implementation and ethics of genetic engineering and the editing... Read More
Scientific Spirit How romantics and technophiles can reconcile our love-hate relationship with scientific progress
In March 2009 headlines blared across the front pages of New York’s Daily News that were at once stimulating, scary, and altogether predictable. Dr.... Read More