HUMAN GENETIC ENGINEERING with Dr. Greg Stock of UCLA

On this episode, Michio Kaku opens with his answers to emails that listeners have sent him.   Then he speaks with his guest, Dr. Greg Stock, American biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine.  Greg Stock’s interests lie in the scientific and evolutionary as well as ethical, social and political implications of today’s revolutions in the life sciences and in information technology and computers.  They will talk about his book, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future.  On that topic, discussion will consider – how far should we go?

Explorations is an hour-long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestrial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction.


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