Tag Archives: Genetics

Life has been around for over 3 billion years but it took a very long time for life to invent “sex”. Sex was a great invention (don’t smile, I am not referring to what you are thinking) because it provided a most effective way to create diversity: mixing the genes …

In my previous post in this series I included a clip of an interview with dr. Michio Kaku, a US theoretical physicist and futurist with Japanese grandparents, where he made the point that the basic, structural ingredients of intelligence with respect to evolution can be found in the opposable thumb, …

Gene therapy is the holy grail of genetics. From the moment the code of life was discovered, and further more when the human genome was sequenced scientists have looked into ways of correcting and overcoming the effects of the 6,000 known diseases that are genetically based. Genetical modification can be …

Genetics Possibly the ultimate technology for augmentation could be the genetic manipulation. Clearly this is also the one that brings to the fore most ethical issues and concern. Genetic manipulation has become easier with the CRISPR/Cas 9 technology and laboratory procedures are now becoming standardised and (economically) affordable to scale …