Vox
Should TV ‘quack docs’ like Dr. Oz be regulated?
Dr. Mehmet Oz is a television personality with his own show, The Dr. Oz Show, focusing on medical issues and personal ...
Welcome to the strange new world of synthetic biology
Over the past decade, the ease of sequencing and creating DNA has improved so much that the possibilities of genetic ...
Putting the ‘sex’ in sex chromosomes overshadows their holisitic importance
Sarah Richardson is a historian and philosopher of science who focuses on the intersections between race and sex and the ...
Why not destroy all small pox samples? Threat of synthetic recreation one reason
When the world eradicated smallpox in 1980, it was the first — and still only — time that people have ...
Why make bird flu more virulent? An explainer
A few years ago, a researcher took the deadly bird flu, turned it into a highly contagious deadly bird flu, ...
