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How to Build a Dragon or Die Trying: check out new book with my daughter Julie

My daughter Julie and I have written a book together entitled, “How to Build a Dragon or Die Trying, A satirical look at cutting edge science.”

The book will be out sometime in June most likely.

This is a very different kind of book than my first two, Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide and GMO Sapiens.

In How to Build a Dragonwe, first of all, take a satirical tone as highlighted by the subtitle. We…

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Surprising reason why human cloning may produce someone else

Images from artist Daisuke Takakura, human cloning imagined.

“If I’m going to the trouble of cloning myself, I want the clone to be a copy of me!”

I’m imagining what someone might say if they were told that their expensive and ethically dubious personal cloning efforts produced a clone that was somebody else instead of them. Even if the clone was very similar to the clonee, perhaps like a sibling…

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Top 7 tech hurdles to human germline CRISPR

Human germline CRISPR raises major bioethical considerations, but what about technical issues?

Setting aside the many ethical issue about the general idea of human modification itself, could this really work? Yes in theory it could, but there are some very tough technological challenges that could and likely would cause failures or unacceptable outcomes at many steps along the way. These failures…

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Countering that Pro-Heritable Human CRISPR WSJ Piece

It’s germline CRISPR time, right?

Wrong.

But the particularly enthusiastic supporters of heritable human CRISPR often cite hypothetical benefits in glowing terms, but either don’t mention risks or strongly downplay them. These fans also tend to leave alternative, proven and safe technologies such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) out of the discussion or only mention them as an…

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CRISPR, human genetic modification, & a needed course correction

Are designer babies made using CRISPR or other genetic modification technologies closer to reality today? If so, what exactly should we do about it?

Researchers can use CRISPR to genetically modify just about any organism or its cells, but targeting humans is the subject of the most intense discussion including using CRISPR in the human germline for heritable “editing” or genetic modification of…

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Blog reader survey results & winner of the stem cell swag

It’s fun and useful for me to learn about the readers of this blog in terms of who they are and what their interests are in terms of the types of posts that I do.

Below are the results of two recent reader surveys that I did to get this kind of information. The two polls got 162 and 192 responses, respectively.

Before I get to discussing the results, I also included a prize/raffle element to this…

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Find $250 Easter egg in GMO Sapiens #CRISPR book: here's a hint

Find $250 Easter egg in GMO Sapiens #CRISPR book: here’s a hint

Want $250 as well as at least a sliver of science-related glory?

Within my book GMO Sapiens on CRISPR and human genetic modification, I’ve hidden a scientific Easter egg.

There’s more Easter egg info over here including the rules.

If you are the first one to find and properly explain this egg to me after buying the book, you win $250. I had originally limited it to the print edition, but…

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Korean edition of my GMO book on human CRISPR is out

I got a package from my publisher and upon opening it I saw the Korean edition of my book GMO Sapiens on the potential use of CRISPR in humans.

This is really exciting.

I don’t speak Korean, but it was interesting to see the cover and how the book turned out in Korean. The cover art on the Korean edition is quite striking with the silver and red, and the different icons coming together.

It is…

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