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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. “We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. Safe Genes was announced last month.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

A new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that it’s going to be a close election. Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911.

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