Tag Archives: Gene-Editing
Public beliefs about science and tech across the world
In a new study, we analyzed survey data from fifty-four countries, examining country-level and individual-level differences in beliefs about science and technology.
The gene editing conversation: Public dialogue will require major investments
In 2014 biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California at Berkeley awoke from a nightmare that would shift the focus of her world-class scientific career. Two years earlier, with her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, now director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, Doudna had achieved one of the most Continue Reading »
Divided expectations: Why we need a new dialogue about science, inequality, and society
If you are reading this column, you have likely benefited from the scientific and technological advances that have transformed the world’s economy. For well-educated professionals who form the core audience for popular science magazines, these innovations have created new wealth and career opportunities. Yet paradoxically, the very success of the science and engineering sector has Continue Reading »
Beyond partisanship in biopolitics: Reservations about science transcend political boundaries
February 13, 2014 —During the next decade, advances in the life sciences are likely to generate intense political debate in the United States and around the world. Even as conflict over human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely subsided, controversies may resurface as such investigations move forward, and as political conditions change. High-profile debates at Continue Reading »
Opinions about scientific advances blur party-political lines
Reading about the rapid pace of advances in biomedicine, you may have wondered why more politically liberal countries like Germany and Canada have stronger restrictions on embryonic stem cell research than the politically conservative US. History and happenstance play a role, but these differences also reflect public concerns that do not conform to traditional left Continue Reading »