Jim Kozubek

Writer, Biologist, Freelance

Jim Kozubek is a science writer and computational biologist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Time and Scientific American, among others. His latest book is Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9 (2016).

Written by Jim Kozubek

Painting of a moonlit harbour with a prominent lighthouse, dark hills, and figures working on a boat near the water’s edge.

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History of science

Enlightenment rationality is not enough: we need a new Romanticism

Jim Kozubek

Digital image of a luminous, purple outline of a human brain on a black background, showing brain structure details.

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Genetics

Even if genes affect intelligence, we can’t engineer cleverness

Jim Kozubek

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on stage smiling with the projected text “Can we cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime?” in the background.

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Illness and disease

Billionaires say they’ll end disease: evolution says otherwise

Jim Kozubek