Heidi Stevenson, Gaia-Health Waking Times Synthetic Biology and DNA Printing: What Are They? Can they really just print out DNA? Or is it hype? Is it a new Pandora’s box? The developers of this new technology claim that it’s nothing more than the next step of evolution—that genetic engineering is no different than what nature …
Pao L. Chang, Guest Waking Times The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the most sophisticated projects ever done in modern human history. The HGP main focus was to sequence all 3 billion chemical base pairs of the double helix human DNA. This project was done by the US Department of Energy, the National …
Mike Barret Waking Times We’ve seen genetically modified mosquitoes, genetically modified plants, and genetically modified cows, but could we soon be dealing with our own genetic alterations – genetically modified humans? As the months and years pass, scientists seem to be getting closer to ‘manufacturing’ humankind, with some of the most recent ‘advancements’ revolving around a …
