DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research

DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research
December 10, 2017
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Gene-drive research has been pioneered by an Imperial College London professor, Andrea Crisanti, who confirmed he has been hired by Darpa on a $2.5m contract to identify and disable such drives.

Human augmentation has, at least at the beginning, a very limited number of very specific use cases. The supersoldier certainly is the top one.