Gene drives, a potentially dangerous application of genetic engineering, enable forced inheritance and species manipulation. With proposed uses in disease vector and invasive species control, as well as agriculture, the main risks and challenges of gene drives relate to uncontrollabil...
Genetic Engineering is a radical and rapidly developing technology that touches our lives through its application in medicine, forensics, industry and agriculture. Through this science humans are fast in becoming the architects of life but there are those who warn against the unknown dangers of playin...
Farmers would have 30 days to destroy crops that they had planted in good faith, and more importantly crops that there is no rational reason to think are somehow dangerous. A major disruption to our local farmers is possible. The situation is actually worse, because not only does the measure...
Why are recombinant DNA technology and nucleus transplantation technology still dangerous? Why is RNA not a genetic material? Why do some organisms need DNA and other RNAs as heredity materials? Why is it important to remove proteins in a DNA extraction procedure? Why is it important th...
C.It is their way of expressing thanks to others.D.This becomes even more so when the task is dangerous.E.Some feel that volunteering is a way for them to grow emotionally.F.When disaster strikes, some people offer their services to help others.G.For these inpiduals, it’s all about ...
Is genetic engineering up to the task? No one knows. But recent genomic breakthroughs are encouraging. Scientists have sequenced the genomes of crops such as rice, potatoes, bananas, and wheat. At the same time, advances in molecular biology mean that genes can be deleted, modified, and inser...
— A similar strategy might be used to make mosquito populations overproduce males. That would reduce mosquito bites in the short term—only females bite—and open the door to shrinking wild populations through genetic engineering. The new genome revealed details of the DNA stretch that makes mosq...
The natural process of apoptosis is critical for ridding the body of aberrant cells, such as pre-cancerous cells that multiply too aggressively and accumulate dangerous mutations that can lead to disease. In accordance with these new discoveries in mice, Rbm25 activity is also negatively correlated...
We humans often labor under the dangerous illusion that all our opponents are innately evil. But every time I encounter someone who is talking nonsense while being overconfident and self-righteous about it, I should visualize that he had just the wrong genes, the wrong learning environment and ...
The claim that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. Atheism is correlated with better scientific literacy [2][3], lower poverty rates, high...