by rss feed | Sep 14, 2025 | Cathy Tie, News Feeds, weekly reads
Is there hope for bipartisan support of science these days? I think so, but we’re in a big hole here in the US. Plus, some of the leaders are digging. Still, new proposed legislation provides a bit of hope. Before we get into that, Cathy Tie, whose Manhattan...
by rss feed | Aug 27, 2025 | Cathy Tie, cloning, CRISPR babies, Eriona Hysolli, He Jiankui wife, Manhattan Project CRISPR, News Feeds
A tech entrepreneur named Cathy Tie is talking about eventually making gene-edited babies in the U.S. via something she is calling the Manhattan Project. What should we make of this? The fact that she recently married He Jiankui who made those three CRISPR’d...
by rss feed | Jun 4, 2025 | biotechs, Cathy Tie, gene editing, How to Build a Dragon, Josie Zayner, Los Angeles Project, News Feeds
I have been reading up on something called the Los Angeles Project that involves gene editing embryos to try to make new animals. Biohacker Josie Zayner and Cathy Tie are the founders. They even have aspirations to make dragons and unicorns with CRISPR. That resonated...
