Science
The Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now – WIRED
We’re on the cusp of being able to program biological systems like we program computers. That raises some thorny questions.
In July 2017, I sat in on a closed-door meeting coordinated by the State Department and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. In the room were research scientists, government officials, and policy wonks with PhDs in the hard sciences. Our task that day was to talk about the future of Crispr-Cas9. Back then, the public wasnt yet aware of this powerful genetic editing tool, but today you probably know it as the set of molecular scissors that use biological processes to cut…
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