Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Bioengineering company Colossal wants to bring back the wooly mammoth and the thylacine. But could they actually do it? And most importantly, should they?
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Despite dire warnings, we may never be able to custom design humans. And if we ever learn how, we may accidentally drive ourselves into extinction if we try.
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The CRISPR babies scandal has unlocked old fears about the power of gene editing in the wrong hands and created new concerns about rogue operators who refuse to play it safe, even when there are literally lives on the line.
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He Jiankui tried to create two human beings resistant to HIV. Instead he triggered an international scandal with his methods and work experts describe as amateurish and shoddy.
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The first cancer-fighting gene therapy has been approved by the FDA, a major step towards turning cancers into manageable diseases.
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One good way to fight bacteria that have a resistance to antibiotics may be to remove their resistance to antibiotics...
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Anti-GMO activism is the left's version of global warming denialism and it's just as vicious and fact-free.
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Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.
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No matter how good the intentions, designing the babies of a future generations is simply not going to work in the long term.
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The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.