Hand-Crafted Humans

BGI technicians at work  from MIT Technology Review

An interview with evolutionary psychologist and university lecturer Geoffrey Miller, who contributed his DNA to China's "genius baby" program, aka the Cognitive Genetics Program at the Beijing Genome Institute (BGI): http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program
   Excerpts from the documentary DNA Dreams, by Bregtje van der Haak, about the work of BGI (and which, btw, is screening at USC on April 8, for those who think they can stomach it). "The advantage of China," says one researcher there, "is that the regulations in this field are relaxed" (video ~ CAUTION: a lot of this work is with animals, and the footage ~ as well as its implications ~ can be upsetting and distressing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXPWUm0PmY