Julien Crockett is the Science and Law Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Julien Crockett

Kevin Davies is the author of Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing. He is a molecular geneticist turned science writer, the founding editor of Nature Genetics, and currently the executive editor of The CRISPR Journal.&nbsp;

Kevin Davies

John Dupré is professor of the philosophy of science, University of Exeter and director of Egenis, The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, which he founded in 2002. He received a PhD from Cambridge in 1981, and has subsequently worked at Oxford, Stanford, and Birkbeck College, London before moving to Exeter. His books include The Disorder of Things&nbsp;(1993),&nbsp;Human Nature and the Limits of Science&nbsp;(2001),&nbsp;Darwin’s Legacy&nbsp;(2003), and&nbsp;Processes of Life&nbsp;(2012). His recent work has advocated a radically processual understanding of living systems, which is explored in a book co-edited with Daniel Nicholson,&nbsp;Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology&nbsp;(2018, open access), and in&nbsp;The Metaphysics of Biology, due to be published this month. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honorary international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the president of the Philosophy of Science Association. Photo by Guido Castagnoli.

John Dupré

Hank Greely is the author of CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans. He's a law professor and director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University.&nbsp;

Hank Greely

Eben Kirksey is the author of The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modified Humans. He's an American anthropologist and a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

Eben Kirksey

Amy Webb is the author of the forthcoming book The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. She as a quantitative futurist, the founder of the Future Today Institute, and professor of strategic foresight at NYU's Stern School of Business.&nbsp;

Amy Webb

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Amy Webb is the author of the forthcoming book The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. She as a quantitative futurist, the founder of the Future Today Institute, and professor of strategic foresight at NYU's Stern School of Business.&nbsp;