On Human Genetic Augmentation

New gene editing technologies such as Crispr have moved genetic enhancement from science fiction to reality. 

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I interviewed a preeminent expert in the field, Harvard's George Church, on the promise and perils.

Human Genome Editing A breakthrough toward curing AIDS, depression…and augmenting normal humans?

The current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that an approach to human genome editing, a gene therapy, may "provide a viable path toward a permanent cure for AIDS and a means to vaccinate against other pathogenic viruses.”

My PsychologyToday.com article today explores the issues likely to derive as gene therapy becomes more of a reality. HERE is the link.