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Hacking the Code of Life
- How gene editing will rewrite our futures
Engelsk Paperback
Hacking the Code of Life
- How gene editing will rewrite our futures
Engelsk Paperback

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Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year.

But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or ‘gene editing’. Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago.

But is it ethical to change the genetic material of organisms in a way that might be passed on to future generations? If a person is suffering from a lethal genetic disease, is it even more unethical to deny them this option? Who controls the application of this technology, when it makes ‘biohacking’ – perhaps of one’s own genome – a real possibility?

Nessa Carey’s book is a thrilling and timely snapshot of a technology that will radically alter our futures.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9781785786259
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1785786253
Udg. Dato:
2 jul 2020
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Icon Books
Oplagsdato:
2 jul 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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