For the first time in history, human beings have been given the keys to the car called Evolution. A breakthrough #technology now allows us to modify genes with ease and precision. Within the next year or so, its power will be starkly revealed when a living, breathing wooly mammoth is born, the first since the Ice Age. For human #applications, trials of this new technology are already underway seeking to eradicate various debilitating genetic diseases. But we’re still learning to drive. Are we zooming toward a happy, healthy, well-fed future, or toward a cliff? Join journalist #LesleyStahl and a lineup of bioethicists, evolutionary biologists, and the pioneering scientists using this tool in their labs right now as they consider the direction we're headed in and what promises and perils the future of DNA editing might hold. (Link to tickets in bio) . . . . . #worldsciencefestival #wsf18 #nyc #newyork #newyorkcity #events #tickets #bioethics #dna #edits #crispr #biochemistry #comingsoon ...