Ethics

George Church and Ramez Naam on the limitations of evolution, the power of matchmaking, and why we should send single-cell computers into deep space.

Gene editing scrambles a family’s connections in this original sci-fi story for stg-neolife-staging.kinsta.cloud.

A bioengineer, a biopunk, and a biotech reporter square off onstage about our neobiological future.

A Chinese scientist engineered kids to resist HIV. Here are other changes that could be on the feature list for Humanity 2.0.

Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

After watching medical records get traded for billions of dollars, a tech entrepreneur says he can help you grab a share of the bounty.

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

I am not afraid of the prospect of editing human genes. If we do it thoughtfully, it can be a gift to future generations.

Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans.