Biotechnology News

Artificial Photosynthesis: Can We Harness the Energy of the Sun as Well as Plants?
In the early 1900s, the Italian chemist Giacomo Ciamician recognized…

The Federal Government Updates Biotech Regulations
By Wakanene Kamau
This summer’s GMO labeling bill and the…

Effective Altruism 2016
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The Effective Altruism Movement
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Podcast: Could an Earthquake Destroy Humanity?
Earthquakes as Existential Risks
Earthquakes are not typically…

The Problem with Brexit: 21st Century Challenges Require International Cooperation
Retreating from international institutions and cooperation will…

Existential Risks Are More Likely to Kill You Than Terrorism
People tend to worry about the wrong things.
According to a…

The Collective Intelligence of Women Could Save the World
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…
