by Andrew Maynard | Aug 29, 2018 | Emerging Technology, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
I was a newly minted Ph.D. when I first saw Jurassic Park. It was June 1993, and my wife and I were beginning to enjoy our new-found freedom, after years of too much study and too little money. I must confess that we weren’t dinosaur geeks. But there was something about the hype surrounding the movie that hooked us. Plus, we fancied a night out.
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 3, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Public Health, Risk, Synthetic Biology
In just a few short weeks, Zika has shot from being an obscure infection to a headline-hitting public health disaster. The virus is spreading rapidly across the Americas (and potentially beyond), is suspected of being associated with birth defects that affect brain...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 1, 2015 | Emerging Technology, Ethics, Future, Responsible Innovation, Society, Synthetic Biology
Gene editing and gene drives are rapidly emerging as the disruptive technologies du jour. But what are they, what can they do, and why should you care? Just last week, research was published that took us a step closer to being able to re-engineer whole species by...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 2, 2014 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Science Communication, Synthetic Biology
Back in August, I gave a talk on colored poop and other “tales of technological derring do” at the Ann Arbor We Make Health Fest. Videos and photos from the day are now available over on the Health By Design website. Here’s my talk – it draws...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 10, 2014 | Emerging Technology, Synthetic Biology
Jim Thomas of the ETC Group has just posted a well reasoned article on the Guardian website on the challenges of defining the the emerging technology of “synthetic biology”. The article is the latest in a series of exchanges addressing the potential...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 2, 2013 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Environment, Geoengineering, Public Health, Risk, Sustainability, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
Cross-posted from Risk Sense This week’s Risk Bites video takes a roller-coaster ride through some of the hottest topics in risk science. Admittedly this is a somewhat personal list, and rather constrained by being compressed into a two and a half minute video...
