The heart of a pig

At the beginning of the year, the pig heart transplant to a human was presented (and celebrated by ignorants and fools) as another techno-scientific miracle. Two months later, the recipient …

For an anti-history of genetics

Introduction How well does a physicist really know nature and its secrets? To what depth has a biologist understood the phenomena of life and the intricate pathways it follows? Naive …

The prophetic capitalism!

The famous Mr. Gates, considered the “most powerful doctor in the world,” we never regarded as anything more than a “press spokesperson” for general capital, especially for companies related to …

Magnetogenetics

It’s not just the much-publicized genetic cut-and-paste (CRISPR/Cas9) method of cell conquest/colonization. Such is the global productivity of labor and so enormous the extraction of surplus value that the bosses …

Electric starch

Chinese biotechnologists, from the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, announced last fall the first (global) laboratory construction of starch from carbon dioxide. While biotechnologists in the West have focused on …

If it swims like a fish, is it a fish?

Not necessarily. It could be an artificial fish. And because the mind will go to something robotic, there are other kinds too. Like the bio-hybrid fish that biotechnologists from Harvard …

Patents on human DNA

If the (largely failed and lethal) genetic vaccines that are circulating for the prevention of coronavirus have nothing to do with genetic therapies and are unlikely to cause cell modification, …

gene drive (designed genetic appropriation)

The science, biology and techniques of gene drives Engineered gene drives are a new form of genetic modification that provide the means for permanent modification or even potentially the elimination …