You may have your reservations about those whom the Establishment had early on characterized as specialized idiots – unless, of course, you are one of them… However, from a more …
Business ownership in everything!
The recognition of “intellectual property” (i.e. industrial/commercial exploitation) in genetic material (and therefore in life forms) is supposedly acknowledged only if some technical intervention has been made to it. These …
Scissors in the drawer
It has been hailed as the “elixir of life” for genetic engineering. It is touted as the “ultimate surgery” on a cellular scale. It is the legendary CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing method, …
Hunting cloned sheep and other postmodern biotechnological absurdities
Sheep have been domesticated for about 12,000 years. Sheep have also been cloned since 1996 – Dolly was the first mammal to undergo this procedure. But this news appeared in …
Symmetrical life
Those who worship modern technology, the most capitalist kind, will increasingly struggle to keep up with it; yet they will only consume its dust. One of the most recent “achievements” …
Catastrophic method failure!
Just a few years ago, a study bearing the prestigious signature of Columbia University’s Medical Center revealed that the highly publicized (and Nobel Prize-winning) genetic cut-and-paste method called CRISPR/Cas9 is …
The case of the state of Georgia
You may have noticed a rather serious upheaval that has emerged in recent weeks in the state of Georgia. Its government has introduced a law (similar versions exist both in …
Gene pool…
The so-called “liberation” of genetically modified organisms, now baptized as “new genomic techniques”, is underway… And one of the fundamental impudences of its supporters is the corruption of the concept …
Kicks to the genitals?
When we indicate it, it might simply be another moment of “marginality.” But if it is an official paper, submitted and registered in the “national medical library” of the USA? …
In the wing…
If they knew how to eat them in the industrial slums of Liverpool and Manchester in the 19th century, they would have passed out. And Engels wouldn’t have written that …
Flying syringes
Mosquitoes are among the favorite “toys” of biotechnologists. This means that they have become the subject of organized mutations so that… One version was the creation of mosquitoes that cannot …
Embryos from nothing?
The sensational reproduction of the announcement caused quite a shock (though one that is quickly forgotten). Israeli geneticists from the Weizmann Institute announced that they managed to create “something” that …