Today, an entire submission for a new gene therapy had been reviewed in under four hours

A primer on the growing importance of biotechnology in the 21st century intended to be a complement to the upcoming final report of the U.S. National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

A Speculative Look at the Sandbox of Policy

The question isn’t whether fiction influences policy. It’s how consciously we use it.

Year: 2047 | Location: Global Biosecurity Command (GBC) | Status: Contained

As someone who sat on the National Academies’ study committee on AI and Biosecurity, I can tell you: the truth is neither so dire nor so utopian.

Sometimes, the most profound discoveries aren’t the ones we fear. They’re the ones that teach us to see the world in a way we never have before.

I have no doubt that mirror life will continue to be a topic of interest in synthetic biology and biosecurity circles. But I am not ready to buy into the panic just yet.

In a world of perfect control, an unlikely bond reveals the fragile humanity within the synthetic

AI-driven breakthroughs were piling up so fast it felt like we were racing toward some inevitable singularity where life itself would be programmable. Are we?

Born to serve, bound by design—what happens when synthetic life begins to dream?