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In a world of synthetic gene drives, the border between the human and the natural, between the laboratory and the wild, already deeply blurred, all but dissolves. In such a world, not only do people determine the conditions under which evolution is taking place, people can—again, in principle—determine the outcome.

Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky

I often say doctors are generally terrible at their jobs and everyone thinks I’m an arrogant techy (maybe true) and this paper is the start of the thread I will send them from now on.

Michael Dempsey x.com

he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Numbers, techniques, and predictions are useful for suggesting, testing, confirming, and putting discoveries to use. But there is nothing technical about the content of the discoveries. The universe does not revolve around the Earth. All the matter that surrounds us is just made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. There are one hundred billion

academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems are not as catastrophic as an outside perspective would suggest. My (contrarian, I guess) intuition is that scientific progress in biology is not slowing down. Specific parts of academia that seem to be problematic: rigid, punishing for deviation, career progressi... See more

Alexey Guzey • How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation - Alexey Guzey

Cells have their own inner supports, which allow the transfer of mechanical forces. These forces can communicate cell shape to the nucleus and thereby influence cellular expressions (Ingber

James Earls • Born to Walk: Myofascial Efficiency and the Body in Movement

This has been a book about people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems. In the course of reporting it, I spoke to engineers and genetic engineers, biologists and microbiologists, atmospheric scientists and atmospheric entrepreneurs. Without exception, they were enthusiastic about their work. But, as a rule, this enthu

Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky

It's a surprising and unfortunate fact that the majority of the world's research, mostly conducted with public funding, is kept behind paywalls run by a tiny number of publishing corporations. But perhaps it doesn't have to be this way.

Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science

How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation - Alexey Guzey

Alexey Guzey guzey.com