Bibliograph

Hacking the code of life, how gene editing will rewrite our futures, Nessa Carey

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Hacking the code of life, how gene editing will rewrite our futures, Nessa Carey

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hacking the code of life

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Nessa Carey

Sub title

how gene editing will rewrite our futures

Summary

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

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