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 ...
Gene editing, probably more than any recent other development in biotechnology, promises the possibility of cures for genetic diseases and enhancements of human capabilities, not to mention revolutionary agriculture. It involves some sort of change induced in an organism with the use of very precise alterations in its DNA. Undoubtedly, one of the most popular gene-editing tools is CRISPR-Cas9, which ...