Neohuman

17: Cyrus Afrashteh

In the 17th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Dr. Cyrus Afrashteh. Cyrus has a background in Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience and Dentistry. He was both a President of the Muslim Students Association and later the Iranian Students Association at the University of Toronto. After a decade of religious Islamic study and practice he left Islam and now considers himself a Spiritual Humanist. He is the founder of Yazdan Biotechnologies that is researching a cure for Type 1 Diabetes and which is expanding to Moscow with the goal of furthering research into Genetic Engineering of Human Embryos for live birth as Designer Babies. They talk about Islam, and the future of Humanity.

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Photographer, and Senior Music Writer at Live in Limbo. Agah is a musician, sound designer, and hobbyist writer & photographer. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards), and former voting member and judge of CARAS (JUNO Awards).