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Artificial Photosynthesis: Can We Harness the Energy of the Sun as Well as Plants?

In the early 1900s, the Italian chemist Giacomo Ciamician recognized…
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The Federal Government Updates Biotech Regulations

By Wakanene Kamau This summer’s GMO labeling bill and the…
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Writing the Human Genome

The Human Genome Project made big news in the early 2000s when…
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CRISPR, Gene Drive Technology, and Hope for the Future

The following article was written by John Min and George Church. Imagine…
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X-risk News of the Week: Human Embryo Gene Editing

X-risk = Existential Risk. The risk that we could accidentally…
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CRISPR to Be Used on People by 2017

We recently posted an article about what the CRISPR gene-editing…
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The Rise and Ethics of CRISPR

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CRISPR. The acronym is short for "clustered regularly interspaced…
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From Global News Canada: Former Greenpeace president supports biotechnology

"Patrick Moore says biotechnology is one of the reasons farmers…
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The Power to Remake a Species

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  Once started, a carefully implemented gene drive could eradicate…