Jonathan Pugh, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu (Oxford): Bioconservatism, Partiality, and the Human-Nature Objection to Enhancement. Irus Braverman (SUNY-Buffalo): Gene Drives, Nature, and Governance: An Ethnographic Perspective. Christopher Gyngell, Thomas Douglas, and Julian Savulescu (Oxford): The Ethics of Germline Gene Editing. This scientist’s thought experiment will give you nightmares: Adrianne Jeffries on the far-future dystopia of genome hacking. Genetically engineered humans will arrive sooner than you think and we're not ready: Sean Illing interviews Michael Bess, author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in a Bioengineered Society.
A future of genetically engineered children is closer than you’d think. The brave new world of gene editing: Matthew Cobb reviews The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids — and the Kids We Have by Bonnie Rochman; DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes by Steven J. Heine; and A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg (and more and more).
Marcus Schultz-Bergin (Cleveland State): Is CRISPR an Ethical Game Changer? Everything you need to know about Crispr gene editing. A simple guide to CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade (and more and more). CRISPR 2.0 is here, and it’s way more precise. CRISPR in 2018: Coming to a human near you. Crispr makes it clear: The US needs a biology strategy, and fast.
