What urban farming? That’s old news. Let’s go for office farming! The Japanese company Pasona group, which specializes in providing advice on personnel selection and management and work organization, offers …
Zika: a dangerous virus or something more?
Microcephaly is a disorder in the development of the nervous system, resulting in restricted brain (and skull) growth. It manifests either prenatally or after birth (in the baby’s first years) …
Synthetic biology and molecular programming: cells as a chain of (re-)production
Where programming meets biology Only 15 years have passed since the “distant” era (by today’s standards of technological advancement) when microprocessor manufacturing companies engaged in a race to increase the …
the politics in dna
… In the past, political scientists were certain that social forces – among them, as the most significant, parents and the immediate environment during childhood – strongly influenced whether people …
primary accumulation
23andMe is a biotechnology company. Its name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells. Although there are many companies offering personalized DNA sequencing, the related services are …
“prevention of abnormalities”
Last February, the British parliament passed a law approving corrective genetic interventions in egg DNA, using DNA segments from another woman’s eggs. The birth of children from “three parents” (the …
“genetism”
The double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has become one of the most powerful representations of what life is: life is its chemistry (when it is not its electronics). The …