Cheap, rapid genetic sequencing, big data, and supercomputing is opening up new possibilities for medicine at the individual level. But rapid advancements in CRISPR, cyborgism, biohacking and more have raised safety concerns and ethical quandaries about who has the right to push the envelope and who does not.
The following people were involved:
- Francoise Baylis @FrancoiseBaylis of Dalhousie University @DalhousieU
- Nicholas Peppas @NPeppas of UT Austin @UTAustin
- Hanadi Sleiman @SleimanHanadi of McGill @mcgillu
- Khaled Salama @knsalama of the Sensors Lab @sensorslabkaust
- Elsa Sotiriadis @thebiofuturist
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