BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY Who truly has the time to relax anymore? We as human beings are taught from a very early age “idle hands are the devil’s playthings,” meaning that if you are not constantly busying yourself with something or…
Scientists held secret meetings to speak privately about creating a synthetic human genome
By: Adrian Smith A closed-door meeting was held on Tuesday at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where scientists spoke secretly about the possibility of developing a synthetic human genome. Using chemicals to manufacture replicas of all DNA contained in human…
Turns out that seeking adventure is actually in our DNA
BY: Jocelyn Schwalm Living a routine life has never appealed to me. The idea of repeating the everyday, seeing the same people everyday, is a glorified depression disguised as a life. Two years ago, I decided that I needed to…
We can now hack our genes to edit the genetic “code” of our children
BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO A genetic editing system named CRISPR/Cas-9 has been successfully used on mice, zebrafish, plants, monkeys, and rabbits, to name a few. The entire human genome has been completely sequenced as of April 2003, and genome research has…