Do You Teach Chemistry?

In November 2018, the scientific community was shaken to its core and the world at large scandalized by the birth of twin girls in China—babies whose DNA had been edited when they were embryos. They were the first “CRISPR’d” people ever born, an acronym standing for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, a powerful gene

In Our Grandchildren Redesigned I focus on three main areas—pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetics—through which the most far-reaching modifications of humans are likely to occur over the coming decades.