Brendan Foht

Jul 3, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | M. Anthony Mills |Brendan Foht |TAYLOR DOTSON |Joseph M. Keegin

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version “Mask Up DC” signs are still visible in the windows of some businesses around Washington, D.C. Are these signs public-health recommendations based on science, or just outdated reminders of a bygone pandemic era? Or could they be relics of a time when many mistakenly believed that masks were actually protecting us?

Jul 3, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Brendan Foht

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version This year may be a turning point for genetic engineering. Ever since the discovery in 2012 of a technique for editing genomes, there has been intense interest in how it might unleash medical marvels — or eugenic nightmares. So far, both the hopes and the worries around this technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, have been largely theoretical.