Why Nobel laureate David Baltimore doesn’t support moratorium on CRISPR babies
Do you envision a day when gene editing will be safe and effective enough to use for germline modifications? Baltimore: I do.
Getting Out of the Ivory Tower
Scientists must be willing to get out of their laboratories and speak responsibly about what is good science and what is not good science.
From Human To Cyborg: Are You Willing To Augment Your Body?
As technological innovations multiply day by day, it will be more and more usual to augment our bodies with the help of machines.
We Are Here To Create
We’re all going to face a very challenging next fifteen or twenty years, when half of the jobs are going to be replaced by machines.
Have humans reached the end of evolution? Not under these 4 scenarios
Is natural selection still a major force in human evolution? We've been taught to think the answer must be yes. But is it really true?
Is It Too Soon to Consider Genome Sequencing for Newborns?
Parents and clinicians have their own ideas about newborn genome sequencing. How much weight, if any, should patients’ perceptions carry?
A.I. Will Enable You To Find Purpose In Life Instead Of Just Flipping Burgers All Day
Martin Ford, a leading expert on A.I., robotics and job automation taks about the future of work, robotic dogs, and dystopic visions.
Can robots ever have a true sense of self? Scientists are making progress
While scientists are still a long way from creating robots with a human-like sense of self, they are getting closer.
What it Means to be Human in the 4th Industrial Revolution
We’ll soon have the extraordinary means to enhance ourselves using biological and artificial materials.
10 reasons to build the human genome from scratch
The Human Genome Project launched in 1990 with the goal to read genomes. Now scientists are working to write them.
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