We know babies are born selfish and power-seeking — and we’ve met the Kindergarten Contract Killers. Now we turn our frightened, Panopticonic, eye to the scientific notion that babies are embedded with a moral code: They are born knowing the difference between good and evil.
Continue reading → The Moral Code of Babies: Hardwiring Good and Evil
In a strange, and somewhat unsettling, want to welcome Freshman and transfer students — while also, it seems, starting their own private human genome database of admitted genius thinkers — UC Berkeley is requiring the collection of DNA samples.
Continue reading → UC Berkeley Requires Freshman DNA Samples
Are we able to stand up and dance for joy yet that primate DNA might eradicate illness while inoperable cancer might be a thing of the past?
Continue reading → Primate DNA and the End of Inoperable Cancer
Do we kill ourselves because of an involuntary dedication to the cause found in our DNA? If you look at the sad and sorry life of Nicholas Hughes, you begin to ponder the undeniable mandate of predestiny.
If DNA is hardware of a cell, can the “software” in the cell be used to cause a genetic hardware malfunction in the essence of the DNA strings? The Baylor College of Medicine has been working on identifying the power of “cellular software flaws” and their adverse effect on the body.
Continue reading → Rendition and Changes in Gene Inheritance
Jamie Grace wrote this article.
It be should acknowledged that the concept of property, and the related concept of ownership, is central to Western society. Property is always a common denominator of value – and as such our legal system is devoted to protecting property ownership – both of objects and of land. Land then, is to be fought over – even in the courts. The aim of this article is to refute the notion that a DNA- or biometric-driven land registry system is desirable for reasons of not practicality but of justice, and the avoidance of harm.
In a big win for the civil liberties of innocent people charged with a crime, but never proven guilty, the court in Strasbourg recently ruled 857,000 DNA profiles must be destroyed, and not kept in a database, for future surveillance.
If you could be resurrected from the grave — re-born by science to become your own twin in a never-ending cycle of life — would you hope for that chance to live your life over again?
Walgreens — the largest drugstore chain in America — announced this week that they are selling over-the-counter DNA home paternity tests.
For $5,000.00USD, you can get your entire DNA chain mapped — and it will reveal the very essence of who you are and what makes you.
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