Collaborate Disseminate
Many years ago, I took a summer trip to the Maryland shore with some friends. One of my buddies and I got bored with playing football on the beach, so …read more Continue reading Genetically Modified Mosquitos: Biohacking for Disease Prevention
Every day in the US, seventeen people die because they couldn’t get a organ transplant in time. An American biotech company called United Therapeutics is looking to pick up the lifesaving slack by producing a line of genetically-modified pigs for …read more
Continue reading Swine of the Times: Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants on Track for 2021
Companies spend thousands developing a project for the market, hoping their investment will return big. Investing like this happens every day and won’t shock anyone. What may surprise you is someone who spends more than a decade and thousands of their own dollars to make an open-source version of a …read more
Continue reading Spider Silk, Spider Silk, Made Using a Strain of Yeast
“Messiness” has been identified as the main reason consumers avoid real trees. Scientists are finding ways around it. Continue reading Scientists Are Creating Christmas Trees That Don’t Shed Their Needles
The new film from Bong Joon Ho is a critique of ethical capitalism wrapped in a heartwarming animal adventure story. But it’s not coming to theaters: it premieres on Netflix June 28. Continue reading ‘Snowpiercer’ Director’s New Movie ‘Okja’ Is an Anti-Corporate Mindfuck
It’s designed to grow grains for livestock while saving farmers money on labor. But that means it’s also coming for some human jobs. Continue reading This Giant Vertical Farming Robot Is Coming For Your Crops
Research into Alzheimer’s, blindness, heart disease, and arthritis has been killed. Continue reading Scientists Are Furious Over Canada’s Bizarre Ban on Importing Zebrafish
Like an ice-cream truck—one that distributes genetically-modified, disease-fighting insects instead of sweet treats. Continue reading Watch Genetically Modified Zika-Fighting Mosquitoes Released From a Van
The local community voted against the experiment, but the government has decided to move forward somewhere else. Continue reading Florida Needs a New Place to Release Genetically-Modified Anti-Zika Mosquitoes
A whopping 40 percent think the science is ‘unclear’ on climate change. Continue reading A Shocking Number of Canadians Don’t Get Climate Change, Vaccines or GMOs