Biotechnology Archive
The Collective Intelligence of Women Could Save the World
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Neil deGrasse Tyson was once asked about his thoughts on the…
Writing the Human Genome
The Human Genome Project made big news in the early 2000s when…
CRISPR, Gene Drive Technology, and Hope for the Future
The following article was written by John Min and George Church.
Imagine…
X-risk News of the Week: Nuclear Winter and a Government Risk Report
X-risk = Existential Risk. The risk that we could accidentally…
X-risk News of the Week: Human Embryo Gene Editing
X-risk = Existential Risk. The risk that we could accidentally…
An Explosion of CRISPR Developments in Just Two Months
CRISPR made big headlines…
The Wisdom Race Is Heating Up
There’s a race going on that will determine the fate of humanity.…
2015: An Amazing Year in Review
Just four days before the end of the year, the Washington Post…
CRISPR to Be Used on People by 2017
We recently posted an article about what the CRISPR gene-editing…
The Rise and Ethics of CRISPR
CRISPR.
The acronym is short for "clustered regularly interspaced…
From Global News Canada: Former Greenpeace president supports biotechnology
"Patrick Moore says biotechnology is one of the reasons farmers…
The Power to Remake a Species
Once started, a carefully implemented gene drive could
eradicate…
FHI: Putting Odds on Humanity’s Extinction
Putting Odds on Humanity’s Extinction
The Team Tasked With…
CSER: Playing with Technological Dominoes
Playing with Technological Dominoes
Advancing Research in an…
GCRI: Aftermath
Aftermath
Finding practical paths to recovery after a worldwide…
GCRI News Summaries
Here are the July and August global catastrophic risk news summaries,…
Future of Life Institute Summer 2015 Newsletter
TOP DEVELOPMENTS
* $7M in AI research grants announced: We…
Chinese Scientists Report Unsuccessful Attempt to Selectively Edit Disease Gene in Human Embryos
Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou failed to…
April 2015 Newsletter
In the News
* The MIT Technology Review recently published…
Feeding Everyone No Matter What
Dr David Denkenberger is a research associate at the Global Catastrophic…
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