New Yorker
Speed of breakthroughs spurred by gene editing is outpacing ethical constraints. These could be the consequences
The Chinese researcher He Jiankui was jailed for creating customized babies. Some observers argue that the real problem wasn’t him—it ...
Humanity enters an age of controlling destiny: Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s roadmap for transforming future of human evolution
The Chinese researcher He Jiankui was jailed for creating customized babies. Some observers argue that the real problem wasn’t him—it ...
What, me worry? The era of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is rapidly approaching — when ‘fake people’ will outthink humans
Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it? ...
‘The third time might not be the charm’: Is there a limit to how many times you can get COVID?
One wonders whether the cycle could continue forever—whether many of us will eventually get covid for a fourth time, or a fifth, ...
Sickle cell cure? Gene therapy very promising but trust and racial disparities in healthcare may be barriers
More than a century after sickle-cell disease was first diagnosed, advances in gene therapy are poised to make it not ...
Living with chicken pox offers lessons for the COVID era
Last summer, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an internal presentation on the coronavirus, which was leaked to ...
Viewpoint: Should Anthony Fauci and the federal government declare a ‘new normal’ in the battle against endemic COVID?
On [January 6], six medical experts close to the White House published three op-eds in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ...
A second Green Revolution: How gene editing could revolutionize photosynthesis and transform agriculture
Stephen Long is a professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the director ...
What are the chances that we’ll get a universal flu vaccine?
In truth, we’re never fully ready for the flu. We know it’s coming, like the first fall leaf, and yet ...
‘The inscrutability of organic status’: Are you getting what you pay for when you buy food with an organic label?
[Editor’s note: In this article, the New Yorker documents a large-scale fraudulent organic scheme in the U.S. They chart a ...
Delta won’t be the last: What challenges might future COVID variants bring?
During this pandemic, we’ve developed and deployed vaccines in real time. Meanwhile, sars-CoV-2 is replicating not in a dozen flasks ...
Viewpoint: What should we do when Artificial Intelligence crosses ethical lines?
A few years ago, a number of A.I.-research organizations began to develop systems for addressing ethical impact, [including] the Association ...
Pregnant women were excluded from COVID vaccine trials. Now many are debating if they want to risk getting a shot
As the F.D.A.-approved vaccine candidates make their way from production lines to frontline workers in nursing homes, hospitals, and in ...
Russia aims to beat the West in so-far successful effort to rollout an effective COVID vaccine
At the time of Sputnik V’s approval, Moderna and Pfizer were months away from announcing the results of their Phase ...
Gene editing: Playing God or repairing a ‘natural system’ that has gone haywire?
With CRISPR, biologists have already created—among many, many other living things—ants that can’t smell, beagles that put on superhero-like brawn, ...
‘Year of the Plague’: The New Yorker explores America’s continuing tragedy
In October, 2019, the first Global Health Security Index appeared, a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal ...
Coronavirus evolutionary tree can illuminate pandemic’s ‘past, present and possible future’
For anyone who knows how to look, the past, present, and possible futures of the new coronavirus can be found ...
Is there any point in living longer if we can’t stay young?
Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. ... "...Over the past century, ...
‘Synthetic media’: How AI could make the era of ‘fake news’ far worse
In the emerging world of “synthetic media,” the work of digital-image creation—once the domain of highly skilled programmers and Hollywood ...
Are genes more important than practice for excelling in games, sports, and academics?
[The] age-old debate: nature versus nurture, genetics versus effort. We’ve been having it long before we knew what DNA was...[T]he ...
Should Hawaii use GM mosquitoes to save its endangered birds?
The 2016 [World Conservation Congress] has been held in Hawaii, which is fitting, since the state is often referred to ...
GMO mosquitoes could save Hawaii’s critically endangered birds
[M]osquitoes, which carry avian malaria, are a principal reason that just forty-two of more than a hundred species of native ...
Researchers attempt to track Hannibal’s legendary journey from ancient horse manure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More than two thousand ...
American eugenics movement was dark time for science and society
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Carrie Buck was born ...
Scientists use ‘assisted evolution’ in attempt to save coral reefs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Hawaii Institute of ...
Schizophrenia’s family ties invoke necessity of genetics in mental illness research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. That schizophrenia runs in ...
For precision medicine to work, genetics knowledge needs to catch up to science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a recent speech ...
Cancer treatment guidelines limit use of unorthodox cures, hinder medical progress
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Vince DeVita served as ...
