Foreign Affairs Focus: Laurie Garrett on Synthetic Biology

10/20/14 • 7 min

Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, interviews Laurie Garrett, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the promise and perils of synthetic biology. Read Garrett's cover article here.

This video interview was originally published on January 15, 2014.

This video interview was originally published on January 15, 2014.

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Will Chinese economic development ultimately lead to political development? In Age of Ambition, the journalist Evan Osnos thinks he has found the missing link: the emergence in Chinese society of a search for dignity. Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, recently sat down with Osnos to discuss Chinese spirituality, Beijing's censorship of journalists, and President Xi Jinping's anticorruption campaign. For more books coverage, follow us on Twitter @FA_books and subscribe to our monthly Books and Reviews newsletter. This video interview was originally published on September 18, 2014.