Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures - Brossura

Carey, Nessa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1785784978 ISBN 13: 9781785784972

Casa editrice: Icon Books, 2019

Riassunto

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 ones own genome a real possibility?

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

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Informazioni sull?autore

Nessa Carey worked in the biotech and pharma industry for thirteen years and is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. Her previous books for Icon are The Epigenetics Revolution (2011), described by The Guardian as a book that would have had Darwin swooning, and Junk DNA (2015), a cutting-edge guide to the ever-more mysterious genome (New Scientist).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Icon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1785784978
• ISBN 13: 9781785784972
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 181
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile