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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
16h ago“If you could change one thing in a plant, animal, or human to prevent suffering, would you want scientists to try it?”
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Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Technologists
Reversible For all of history, extinction meant gone. Past tense, permanent, the end of the sentence. That is about to stop being true, and most of conservation hasn’t updated for it. We freeze tissue from the last individuals.... Who gets to edit the human genome?: The Story
The video November 2018. He Jiankui uploaded a YouTube video announcing he had edited the genomes of two human embryos using CRISPR-Cas9. Twin girls, Lulu and Nana. HIV resistance, he claimed....