Loading ...Federal Research On Manipulating Brains And Rewriting DNA Should Worry Us All
The U.S. government is pouring billions of dollars into understanding genetics and the human brain — and how to manipulate those systems.
Two weeks ago, the White House announced that $2 billion will go to reshaping life as we know it by way of the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative. “We need to develop genetic engineering technologies and techniques,” the executive order reads, “to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.”