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It's 2022 and we're still here*
*but in a slightly different format
A fun AI turned out to be a racist—again!
Plus, neovaginas, biomaterials, and a personal stake in genetic testing.
How much are the first cloned human cells worth?
Plus, circumcision is falling in popularity, and we need an embryo regulator.
Profile details allegations against immortalist Aubrey de Grey
Plus, CRISPR blindness trial is successful and mushrooms on the runway
Who's afraid of a woolly mammoth?
Plus, a bunch of biotech companies got a lot of money!
Do robot boyfriends dream of electric sheep?
Plus, medical abortions, gene therapy hearings, and new egg freezing rules.
The summer of the mobs and the elites
Here's all the biotech news you missed while doomscrolling
Biohackers in space, but not on YouTube
Plus, the UK's GMF debate and why the right wing needs Phil101.
Should biohackers be regulated? Depends on your definition of 'biohackers'
New guidelines for stem cell and gene therapies miss the mark
A cohort of pirate ships?
Biohacker ethics oversight, plus a lot of gene therapy news
Medical tourism for this gene therapy is likely dangerous
Plus, vaccine patent waivers!
Don't sell your genome as an NFT
Plus, will the youths start a new pandemic this summer?
Human-monkey hybrids: A brief history
A new flavor of chimeric embryo hit the news this week
The bizarre cruelty of Elon Musk
Plus, regulating enhancements and going too far with prenatal testing
Two Tales of Two Vaccines
Plus: Sex robots for lockdown and a biohacker webseries
Would you eat a steak grown from your own cells?
Artists suggest human meat, plus the spermpocalypse is sexist
Everything you wanted to know about embryo research but were too afraid to ask
This week: Artificial wombs and synthetic embryos
More funding for community science please!
AmeriCorps for science, enhancement for Olympians, and robot doctors.
Covid cooled the CRISPR patent war
A CRISPR truce, expanding embryo research, and Israel's green pass