New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 10, 2026 Biological Systems, Health and Healing Adrian Woolfson is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Genyro, a synthetic genome design and construction company based in San Diego, CA. He is the author of Life Without Genes, and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics. Additionally, he has authored over 160 scientific papers, book chapters, reviews, and patents. His newest book is On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Intelligence. Adrian explores the emerging field of synthetic biology, including the design and creation of entirely new life forms using artificial intelligence. He explains how genomes function as both instruction manuals and component libraries, and how decoding their “grammar” could allow humanity to engineer organisms for medicine, sustainability, and beyond. Woolfson also addresses profound ethical questions, ecological risks, and the long-term future of life as a programmable medium. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:06:20 Synthetic life creation 00:12:40 Genome grammar regulation 00:19:00 AI timelines ethics 00:25:20 Ecology risks firewalls 00:31:40 Governance human editing 00:38:00 Philosophy human nature 00:44:20 Biological possibility mapping 00:50:40 Genome building technology 00:54:50 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on Thursday, April 23, 2026)