Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”
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Blog Post
...publications and funding, bioethics in the age of CRISPR, and the challenges of science becoming increasingly...rapidly changing world of genome engineering via CRISPR.
Though the individual topics are not surprising...scientific world? Would biohackers even be a thing if CRISPR hadn’t made manipulating the genome cheap and relatively...shocking. Mainstream media outlets have addressed CRISPR frequently over the last several years, but lay...politicization of science (from climate change deniers to anti-vaxxers), and the very real dangers of quackery,...scientists themselves.
The sections on optogenetics and CRISPR of course address some of the ethical implications...easy, fast, and cheap distribution of the newest CRISPR-Cas plasmids, has been a key driver of the technology...