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John Parrington
Oxford biologist and author of Redesigning Life
John Parrington is associate professor in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. His books include Redesigning Life: how genome editing will transform the world. His next book, Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain, will be published by OUP in 2021.
John Parrington is associate professor in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. His books include Redesigning Life: how genome editing will transform the world. His next book, Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain, will be published by OUP in 2021.
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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 Brave New World of synthetic humans
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