Health & Wellness

The Sub-Dermal Black Market Returns Thanks to the New Licensing Fees

The BioDistrict regulatory council finalized the thirty percent licensing fee increase on all sanctioned CRISPR 4.0 somatic edits yesterday afternoon. The stated goal was to fund enhanced safety monitoring for elective genetic modifications. By sunset, I was already receiving encrypted messages from three different unregulated clinics in the lower blocks announcing they were open for […]

By Lyra Celestine
21 years, 10 months and 25 days from now
Health & Wellness

The Programmable Immunity Gap and the Fallacy of Universal Coverage

The seasonal respiratory variations arrived three weeks early in the BioDistrict, catching the municipal sequencers completely off guard. Every resident is theoretically entitled to a baseline programmable immunity patch by the first of November. The reality I saw in the clinics this morning was a logistical collapse that looks a lot more like systemic rationing. […]