#Biotechnology

Biotechnology is the application of biology to human goals: making medicines, modifying crops, treating disease, manufacturing materials. The modern wave has been driven by gene-editing tools — CRISPR most famously — that let researchers rewrite DNA with unprecedented precision. The posts collected under this tag cover both the science of those tools and the ethical questions they raise: who decides what to edit, what counts as treatment versus enhancement, and how to weigh enormous potential benefits against irreversible mistakes.