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Science is packed with committees deciding on ethics… but there are few that decide whether it is safe “I am officially launching my new company: Cathy Medicine. We will eradicate diseases in future generations through germline gene editing.” This is one of several strongly and strangely worded tweets sent in recent days from the Twitter […]

Like (I suspect) many birdwatchers, I sometimes wish I actually was a bird. Birds are just better at life. They are more colourful, more tuneful, more beautiful, than mammals. Their feathers are more versatile, their lungs more efficient, their digestion faster, their genomes more streamlined, the visual acuity superior, their eyes attuned to more colours, […]