genetics

Genetic modification of food has been critical in the history of human beings. None of the food we regularly eat today existed before humans and they would never exist outside of “unnatural” human intervention.

In the middle of the culture wars, it is easy to get lost in the absolutist narrative…

With the advent of neuroscience, it has become increasingly more difficult to defend free will.

If there was any branch of science that could have ever vindicated the doctrine of vitalism (the belief that something nonphysical is the force behind the phenomenon of life), it would have been molecular biology and its study of the genetic and chemical underpinnings of life.