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Alex McKeown is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society team (NEUROSEC) and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities (WEH)

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Alex McKeown is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society team (NEUROSEC) and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities (WEH)

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Alex McKeown

New ethics for a mutant world

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The Uniqueness of Humanity
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Matt Jameson Evans

DIY DNA
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Steve Fuller

Suspended Ethics?
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Nicholas Humphrey

Entering the Soul Niche
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Who First into the Ark?
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Rupert Sheldrake

A New Science of Life
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David Healy

The Persecution of Heretics
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Denis Noble

The Emperor's New Genes
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Parashkev Nachev

A.I. and the Medicine of the Future
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Carrie Jenkins

What if the One Isn't the One?
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Havi Carel

How Illness Transforms Philosophy
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Paula Erizanu

Rita Levi Montalcini: the Nobel Prize-winning scientist with a lab in her bedroom
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Aubrey Clayton

You are not an exception
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Robert Plomin

Parenting myths and the DNA revolution
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John Parrington

CRISPR's Brave New World
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Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry

An Enemy of The Open Society
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Susan Levin

The irrationality of transhumanists
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Natasha Vita-More

The ethical transhumanist
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Mark Alan Walker

The rise of God-like beings
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Andrew Reynolds

Science is based in metaphor
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Denis Noble

The gene illusion
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David Healy

How modern medicine became dangerous

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Kevin Davies

Rewriting the code of life
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Eva Jablonka, Simona Ginsburg, Anna Zeligowski

The origin of consciousness
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Julian Savulescu

The moral case for eugenics?

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Sahotra Sarkar

The false promise of human gene editing
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Kathryn Paige Harden

We shouldn't fear genetic differences
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Peter Stilwell, Sabrina Coninx

A new paradigm to understand pain
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Looking at genes through a human lens
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The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink