REENGINEERING LIFE

China Is Reportedly Developing ‘Biologically Enhanced’ Soldiers. So Is the U.S.

Emerging technologies like CRISPR raise new possibilities for militaries

Emily Mullin
Future Human
Published in
4 min readDec 8, 2020

--

A photo of Chinese soldiers juxtaposed against photos of a DNA strip and a dropper with the text Reengineering Life
Photo illustration, source: Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images

Reengineering Life is a series from Future Human about the astonishing ways genetic technology is changing humanity and the world around us.

--

--

Emily Mullin
Future Human

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.