Pete Shanks
Pete Shanks, MA, attended Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and moved to California in the mid-1970s. He has been active in a range of local and international political movements, while mostly making his living in the publishing industry, especially on the production side; he enjoys the craft of bookmaking. Appalled by the eugenic possibilities of biotechnology, he has consulted with the Center for Genetics and Society since its earliest days. He is the author of Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed (Nation Books) and a regular contributor to Biopolitical Times.
Biopolitical Times
Lab mice are probably not the happiest of creatures. Food is not much of a problem (unless they are in...
The National Academies summit on human germline gene editing has dominated discussion over the last few months, with talk about...
Editas, the gene-editing company founded by several of the scientists who developed CRISPR technology, announced on January 4th that it...