Biotechnology

A Christian Perspective on Synthetic Embryos

October 4, 2023

I carry around a lot of valuable life lessons that my high school driver’s ed teacher, Mr. Cunningham, taught us. One is: “Make sure...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Should We Eat Lab-Grown Meat? A Christian Perspective

September 20, 2023

It’s the quintessential meat lover’s dish and a holiday favorite, popularized by sportscaster John Madden and Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme. Turducken, a blended word combining turkey, duck,...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

New Thoughts-to-Text Technology: Biomedical Utility or Posthuman Progress?

August 11, 2021

I have "fat fingers." The excessive width of my fingers causes me much consternation every time I try to type out a text message...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Can Dinosaurs Be Resurrected from Extinction?

September 25, 2019

If you could visit a theme park that offered you a chance to view and even interact with real-life dinosaurs, would you go? I...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

A Genetically Engineered Case for a Creator

May 9, 2018

Since the 1960’s, the drug noscapine has been used in many parts of the world as a non-narcotic cough-suppressant. Recently, biomedical researchers have learned...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Does Development of Artificial Intelligence Undermine Human Exceptionalism?

January 17, 2018

On one hand, it appeared to be nothing more than a harmless publicity stunt. On October 25, 2017, Saudi Arabia granted Sophia—a lifelike robot,...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Did Aliens Put a Wow Signal in Our DNA?

August 24, 2016

The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) community has defined a Wow! signal as a transmission that is so unusual in its characteristics as to...

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by Hugh Ross Read

Do Self-Replicating Protocells Undermine the Evolutionary Theory?

November 13, 2015

It’s remarkable to think that two people can examine the same facts and arrive at vastly different conclusions, yet this is what’s happening as...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Artificial DNA, Actual Design

July 14, 2014

... researchers from Scripps Institute in La Jolla, CA, garnered headlines in May of 2014 when they announced the creation of the first-ever...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Q&A: Is a New in vitro Fertilization Method Ethical?

May 29, 2014

We live in a "brave new world," where advances in biotechnology take place at a breakneck pace, often with little opportunity for any kind...

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

IT’S ALIVE! ALIVE! But Should Scientists Play God?

October 25, 2013

If ever there were an RTB book to read around Halloween, it would be Creating Life in the Lab. Author and biochemist Fazale Rana...

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by Read

TNRTB Classic: Thinking About Cloning

February 2, 2012

A few days ago I proposed a theological framework to help Christians think about synthetic biology and the creation of life in the lab....

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by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read