Science of the Future
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Crop biotech policy experts: Fallout from ‘equivocating’ National Academy of Sciences GMO report now being felt
Science is not democratic. The National Academies of Sciences report muddied the debate about GE crop yields, gave undue credence ...
Scientists control mouse’s brain with laser to make them eat milkshakes quicker
Lasers shone into the brains of mice can now activate individual neurons — and change the animals behaviour. Scientists have ...
Smart drugs: Is it smart to use them?
Brain-boosting drugs are routine in treating conditions with deficits in cognition or alertness, such as ADHD and narcolepsy. They also ...
Manipulating DNA to conduct electricity could lead to faster, more powerful computers
The ability to use DNA as a construction material, capable of holding scaffolds of molecules and atoms was one huge ...
Regrowing limbs? Gene map of how lizards regrow tails offers insight to human regenerative medicine
Geneticists have mapped the process by which the green anole lizard can regrow a functional tail. This process may offer ...
Human hibernation: How it can change the world of medicine
Many films and shows feature human hibernation as a means to help astronauts travel deep into space. While this could ...
Nano-scale machines could revolutionize surgery and drug delivery
The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the design and synthesis of the world's smallest machines. The ...
How CRISPR could change the world—And why that frightens many of us
Gene editing could revolutionize the world in a way akin to how the personal computer did. Most Americans are unaware ...
Gene therapy technique developed to prevent cancer metastasis shows promise
The spread of malignant cells around the body, known as metastasis, is the leading cause of mortality in women with ...
Scientists develop stem cell techniques that uses magnets to repair bones
Tiny bundles of stem cells built in the laboratory using microscopic magnets could pave the way to revolutionize the treatment ...
Artificial intelligence: Should we worry?
Hollywood has a long history of depicting artificial intelligence. But as it inches closer to making the jump from the ...
Human hair may act as perfect support structure for growing nanoparticles
[Researchers have] demonstrated the use of human hair to grow catalytic nanoparticles (i.e., nanoparticles that are capable of carrying out chemical reactions). Why human hair? Nanoparticles, ...
Gene doping in sports entails challenges and dangers but may not be so dopey
Athletes experimenting with gene doping may not be ethical, but it could lead to potential treatments of human disease ...
How will we use gene editing to treat human disease?
Technology for safe effective germline editing is not ready yet, but once it is, these are some of things we ...
Should we believe every bold promise in biotechnology?
Based on direct experience,...I would advise that heady promises regarding biotechnology should be viewed with a high degree of skepticism...Many...biotechnological ...
Gene editing may eventually bring superhuman athletes
At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, some of the fastest and strongest people in the world showed us what ...
Genetic enhancement will ultimately happen, no point in denying it
I think CRISPR – the technology that enables us to edit genes – will go down in history as the ...
Human inventions may impact and change our genes over time
Of all living things, why do humans alone create advanced technology? A clue comes from a recent paper on a ...
Potential benefits of human-animal chimeras vastly outweigh risks
If we had a cheap and unlimited supply of healthy organs for transplant, it wouldn’t just transform the lives of ...
Video: CRISPR set to alter what it means to be human—is that so bad?
With the advent of CRISPR, a new age of genetic engineering promises to change everything we know about what it ...
Uses for DNA may spread to far-flung fields like archaeology and fine arts
In the past couple of decades, genetics has revolutionized fields such as...medicine. In the next couple, expect DNA to turn ...
Gene therapy revolution must address new ethical questions
[In 2015], the United States federal budget included a rider banning certain types of gene therapy research, and that has ...
Despite public fear against human chimeras, three already exist
The news that researchers want to create human-animal chimeras has generated controversy recently...But chimeras aren't always man-made — and there ...
Worries about artificial human enhancement persist among Americans
[According to] an extensive survey conducted by the Pew Research Center...[s]ixty-eight percent [of over 4,000 Americans] were somewhat or very ...
Human enhancement revolution: Science and ethics in precarious balance
Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. Up to this point in history, however, most biomedical interventions, ...
Future of regenerative medicine may be making human tissue from fruits
In the high-ceilinged basement lab, the ear lies flat, encapsulated in a dish on a sheet-metal cabinet. It’s actually a ...
Americans disinterested in using science to build better humans
Americans aren’t very enthusiastic about using science to enhance the human species. Instead, many find it rather creepy. A new ...
