“We can make you allergic to meat“ - Matthew Liao, World Science Festival 2016

Powerful new genetic tools allow scientists to alter the DNA of any organism— with tests on human embryos already underway. Even more ambitious, synthetic biologists on the verge of creating the genetic material for a living organism from scratch are setting their long-term sites on fashioning a fully synthetic human genome. With bold promises of disease resistance and controlling human evolution, this explosive progress has ignited ethical debate. As we rewrite our code of life, how will we revise the code we live by? 2 clips (merged) c/o World Science Festival “Life in Our Image – The Ethics of Altering the Human Genome“ June 4, 2016