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Global transhumanism leader Natasha Vita-More on human germline modification

August 3, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

In my continuing series of conversations with thought leaders related to heritable human modification, today’s post is an interview with Natasha Vita-More, a pioneer in the transhumanism movement and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Humanity+ (H+), the global transhumanist organization. Where do you see transhumanism today? Has it changed over the years? What […]

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Interview with transhumanism leader Maria Konovalenko

July 6, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 21 Comments

The transhumanism movement has been garnering attention lately for a variety of views including embracing aspects of heritable human genetic modification. Earlier this year I interviewed geneticist and transhumanist, George Church. In this post I interview molecular biophysicist and transhumanist Maria Konovalenko. She is the program coordinator at the Science for Life Extension Foundation. In

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Unapologetic He Jiankui eager for more human germline gene editing with help from tech bros

November 5, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

For a few years, biophysicist He Jiankui might have been one of the most recognizable scientists on the planet. He made three “CRISPR babies” or gene edited people. However, his gene editing went badly and as best as we can tell his efforts did not result in precision edits. It’s unclear if he had institutional

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Hateful politics infiltrate human genome editing debate in France

June 27, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

By Elliot Hosman Summary. A campaign calling for a moratorium on using CRISPR in human embryos was launched by a prominent French organization fighting for narrow understandings of life and family. A recent campaign calling for a ban on “transgenic” human embryos was launched by one of France’s most prominent organizations fighting for “science”-backed “one-man-one-woman”

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George Church chat: CRISPR people, Zika, weapons

April 18, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

I talked last year about human genetic modification by CRISPR with George Church a year ago. Now we’ve followed up with a long chat on this topic going into much more detail and with questions on recent developments. Each question is listed numerically and then there is a back and forth on that question with George

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Join discussion of my new book GMO Sapiens on Talking Biopolitics tomorrow

January 25, 2016 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

I’ll be on Talking Biopolitics live tomorrow to discuss my new book, GMO Sapiens. You can RSVP at that link. You can get the Kindle version of the book here or the soft or cover versions at the publisher site here. Nathaniel Comfort will be interviewing me on the book and we’ll also be taking

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Live Blogging #GeneEditSummit Day 1 Post #4: Societal Implications of human gene editing

December 1, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

This is post #4 of my live blogging of the #GeneEditSummit today. It is focused on societal implications so I’m really looking forward to it. You can read posts 1-3, here, here, and here summarizing the talks and key points from the meeting so far. Annelien L. Bredenoord, University Medical Center Utrecht, chaired the session. John Harris,

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More from @TEDxVienna including photos and videos

November 14, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I spent a bit of time in Vienna participating in TEDxVienna. You can see two previous posts on my experience here and here. My own video is not up yet on TED, but a few have popped up so far here. One of my favorites is the talk “What if we

Claim of Liz Parrish DIY gene therapy linked to unlicensed stem cell clinic

October 15, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 20 Comments

In a strange, but fascinating tale recounted by Antonio Regalado in an article over at MIT Tech Review, we hear the first claim of a do-it-yourself (DIY) gene therapy involving a firm called BioViva and its leader Liz Parrish. Liz Parrish and BioViva The owner of a small biotech called BioViva, Liz Parrish, reportedly traveled

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DIY human ‘upgrades’ via biohacking

May 22, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

Heritable human genetic modification has been the topic of the year so far, but another trend is edgy and interesting: non-heritable, but cutting edge forms of human modification that in some ways fall into the class of biohacking. Biohackers are into do-it-yourself (DIY) forms of biology including self-modification. Sure, people have been modifying themselves for

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