A crack in creation : the new power to control evolution
Doudna, Jennifer A.2018
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It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings. Unlike previous techniques, it hands us that power wholesale - and with it, the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, and the power to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends. Jennifer Doudna is the co-inventor of this technology, known as CRISPR, and a scientist of worldwide renown. Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, here she provides the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of. More than this, this book asks us to consider what our new-found power means: how do we enjoy its unprecedented benefits while avoiding its equally unprecedented dangers?
Main title:
A crack in creation : the new power to control evolution / Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg.
Author:
Doudna, Jennifer A., authorSternberg, Samuel H., author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2018.
Collation:
xxii, 281 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781784702762 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1155868
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