The rapid development of human genome editing (HGE) techniques evokes an urgent need
for forward-looking deliberation regarding the aims, processes, and governance of research …

Biotechnology policies and regulations must be revised and updated to reflect the most
recent advances in plant-breeding technology. New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBT) …

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Gene drive development is progressing more rapidly than our understanding of public
values toward these technologies. We analyze a statistically representative survey (n= 1018) …

Current advances in biotechnology open up unprecedented possibilities to transform human
tissues into complex, valuable tissue products, such as organoids. Here, we propose …

Just as the popularization of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s gave rise to
computer hacking, the recent accessibility and affordability of relatively easy (and widely …

In 2012, a new and promising gene manipulation technique, CRISPR-Cas9, was
announced that seems likely to be a foundational technique in health care and agriculture …

Scientific breakthroughs can change how we understand and live in the world, disrupting
long-held assumptions and concepts and raising new questions for philosophy and science …

The rapidly evolving and expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in all aspects of daily life
is outpacing regulatory and policy efforts to guide its ethical use. Governmental inaction can …

Improvements to agriculture will constitute one of the world's greatest challenges in the
coming century. Political and social controversies, as well as complications of plant …