Scary as it sounds, we humans have the capacity to change the course of evolution.  That’s the opinion of Jennifer Doudna, one of the discoverers of CRSPR technology.  (The Ultimate Life Hacker,” by Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, May/June, 2018, pg. 158.)  CRSPR is the ability t

When Jennifer Doudna at Berkley and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France collaborated on their CRISPR research, a  gene-editing tool, (Blogs 9/11/15, 6/15/16) they little imagined they’d be starting a war.  But when Feng Zang, of the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, tried to patent his

If you break out in a rash at the thought of genetically modified foods (GMO), read on.  A sweeping study  released by the National Academy of Science has concluded that GMO’s are as safe as any other food.  (“GMO’s: Safe to eat, says science,” The Week, June 3, 2016, p