Bioinformatics is one indispensable tool in the developing world of genetics whereby genetic data is stored, analyzed, and passed on. By amalgamating biology, computer science, and data analysis into one single discipline, bioinformatics will help new explorations of genetics in a new dimension by the research scientist and medical fraternity. That will include some of the ways in which the ...
Gene Editing for Disease Prevention: Hype and Ethical Anxiety by Lawrence Kogan Gene editing is the most dramatic turn that science has taken in a century. The notion-upon-reading the sentence that scientists can edit a strand of DNA to save humans from diseases is something from a science fiction novel. As exhilarating as it is, however, this technology opens enormous ...
Synthetic biology just sounds like the title of a science fiction movie, doesn’t it? Couldn’t be the name of a real revolutionary field, one that utterly rewrites the rules on how we think about life and biology. Imagine being in the position to design biological systems much the same as one designs software or machines. That is what synthetic biology ...
Now imagine being able to rewrite life code easily, edit some document on the computer, correct typos, fix a broken line, and knock out bits of their unnecessary pieces. The same thing that has just been done but from a documentary and with DNA inside every single living creature. If all of the above sounds to you like some science ...