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Güneş Taylor
Leading science communicator
Gunes Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Her research predominantly focuses on the the genetic formation of ovaries and testes. Gunes has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, and is fascinated by our cultural and ideological responses to our genetic makeup.
As a molecular biologist she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive systems are built. Güneş is a highly experienced public speaker, who has interviewed Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari, Slavoj Zizek, Robert Plomin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Lord Robert Winston.
Gunes Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Her research predominantly focuses on the the genetic formation of ovaries and testes. Gunes has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, and is fascinated by our cultural and ideological responses to our genetic makeup.
As a molecular biologist she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive systems are built. Güneş is a highly experienced public speaker, who has interviewed Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari, Slavoj Zizek, Robert Plomin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Lord Robert Winston.
Güneş Taylor Videos
The making of us
Are humans shaped by genetics or environment?
The Contraception Delusion
Fertility, sex and the future
Life, the universe, and everything else
Has science rendered philosophy redundant?
The passion of reason
Does emotion rule over reason?
Reality, fantasy and metaphor
Are scientific metaphors a real description of reality?
Güneş Taylor Articles
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Brave New Horizon
Where will technology lead the human race?
The Immortal Now
Can philosophy teach us how to die?
Emperor's New Genes
Are genes not the blueprint for life we imagined?
What happens to our bodies when we die?
Biologist Brooke Magnati reveals the secrets of decay
The Evolution of Desire
Do genetics explain all of human nature?
Defeating Aging
Do you want to live forever?
The New Bodies
Transhumanism: Rise of the Cyborgs
Orgasmatron
What can MRI scans of brains in orgasm tell us?
After Darwin
Is the age of selfish gene theory over?
Are Doctors Bad For Us?
Medicine, trust, and power
The Illusion of Race
How do we move on from race?
After Evolution
Is culture beyond genetics?
Doctors in the Age of Google
Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?
The Evolution of Suicide
Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history
Doctors and the Danger Industry
Can big data improve the effectiveness of drugs?
Life On The Edge
How can we halt society's existential crises?
Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?
Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution
Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?
The Uniqueness of Humanity
Is evolution progress?
Genes, Cells, and Brains
Taking on the bioscience industry
A Paradigm of Health
What are the limits of western medicine?
The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?
Cyborg Future
Microprocessors & nano-robots in the human body
Inside the Mind’s Eye
The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene
Your Life in the Balance
Should we trust doctors less than we do?
Documenting Death
Whose death is worth recording? | Brooke Magnanti
Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?
Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine
Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
Neoliberalism makes for crude science
Morality, Hypocrisy and Health
Drugs and Western imperialism
Sex, Science, and Stereotypes
Why women have evolved differently from men
How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture
Designing Life
How to Live Forever
A future without morality
Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?
Meat, Metal, Code
Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?
Should We Change Our Genes?
Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?
The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?
Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?
Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age
Science to the Rescue
How do we decide on the truth?
The return of eugenics?
The danger of eugenics
Evolutionary psychology is a failure with Subrena Smith
Evolutionary psychology is impossible
Trust, science and neutrality
Is science the gold standard of objective truth?
The medicine myth
The failure of medicalising philosophy
How we became who we are
Politics in the nature vs nurture debate
The agents of life
Should we abandon the idea of individual organisms
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CRISPR's Brave New World
Science is based in metaphor
Rewriting the code of life
The moral case for eugenics?
The false promise of human gene editing
A new paradigm to understand pain
Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope
Looking at genes through a human lens
The mystery and origins of play
Biology's Uncertainty Principle
The fight for the future of biology
Nature didn't make us human, culture did
From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation
Too much pleasure causes pain
How science makes politics absurd
Cracking the creation of life
The ocean is the engine of the Earth
The microorganism that shaped humanity
We risk turning life into an illness
The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
The mystery of living things
A new theory of matter may help explain life
The mind-body problem is ruining our health
Suspended Ethics?
Entering the Soul Niche
A New Science of Life
The Persecution of Heretics
Who First into the Ark?
An Enemy of The Open Society
Life, agency, and the evolution of free will