Genetically Modified Babies. The Genetic Editing of Human Life

Genetically Modified Babies. The Genetic Editing of Human Life

Last November, He Jiankui, a Chinese biology Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST)in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province) announced that he and his team had created the World’s first “genetically edited babies”: twin babies Lula and Nana. Dr. He Jiankui, used the CRISPR technology “to alter the embryos of seven couples [allegedly] to make…

Book Review: Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

Book Review: Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

Written in response to the ‘Arab Spring’ initiated in Tunisia in 2011, Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the Middle East, is a powerful indictment of the western neoliberal economic/political order.  Christopher Davidson has gathered a huge amount of information from many sources that support his overall argument, “…the primary blame for not only…