The Center for Genetics and Society blog highlights the latest developments in the social, political, and ethical implications of human biotechnologies, with contributions from staff, fellows, consultants, and guest authors.
Biopolitical Times
Headlines in September announced the birth of the first child with genetic material from three people, using...
The title you just read is also the headline of a post at PLoS Blogs by veteran science writer Tabitha M. Powledge. It’s so perfect I put it in quotes and recycled it, though it turns out that paleoanthropologist John Hawks had the idea first.
Both Powledge and Hawks righteously rubbish the idea of de-extinction on environmental, ethical, and technical grounds, and specifically the fantasy...