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Should We Be Trying to Bring Extinct Species Back to Life?by Pete Shanks, AlternetApril 8th, 2013Here's a look at greenwashing, guilt-tripping and the politics of "de-extinction."

Biological Computer Created at Stanfordby Lisa Krieger, Mercury NewsMarch 29th, 2013A team of Stanford engineers has made a simple computer inside a living cell, where it could detect disease, warn of toxic threats and, where danger lurked, even self-destruct cells gone rogue.

DNA Tool Kit Goes Live Onlineby Ewen Callaway, NatureMarch 12th, 2013The latest shopping website is open for business, offering unusual wares: DNA tools to help biologists to engineer life.

Book Review: Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmaresby John Galloway, BioNewsMarch 11th, 2013Some say we should use genetic science not simply to ameliorate the human predicament but to transcend it. Of course this raises the issue of what 'best' means and, in any event, who decides.

Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earthby Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher EducationMarch 4th, 2013Practitioners of synthetic biology made big promises and investors poured in the money, but most companies have made grinding progress, not breakthroughs.

Meet the New Eugenics, Same as the Old Eugenicsby Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor, Biopolitical TimesMarch 4th, 2013According to a new wave of eugenic advocacy, “we” have a “moral obligation” to enhance future generations.

The Brain is Not Computableby Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology ReviewFebruary 18th, 2013A leading neuroscientist says Kurzweil’s Singularity isn’t going to happen. Instead, humans will assimilate machines.

Exaggerations and Misrepresentations Have No Place in Science Policy Debatesby Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible GeneticsFebruary 15th, 2013A recent debate on whether we should prohibit genetically engineered babies wound up focusing on mitochondrial replacement techniques.

Synthetic Biology and the “Bioeconomy”: Feeding Fuel to the Fire of Landgrabs and Biodiversity Lossby Eric Hoffman and Jeff Conant, Global Forest CoalitionFebruary 14th, 2013The new industrialists want to use synthetic biology techniques to turn microbes into “living chemical factories” engineered to produce biofuels, bio-plastics, industrial chemicals and oils, and even medicines.

Neo Neanderthal[With CGS's Pete Shanks]by Alyona Minkovski, HuffPost LiveJanuary 25th, 2013A leading geneticist at Harvard Medical School says he can clone a Neanderthal and resurrect the extinct species. What are the ethical issues, risks and benefits?

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