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The Unnatural Selection of Our Species : At the Frontier of Gene Editing
EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection Available online
EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kornfeldt, Torill, 1984-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gene editing--Popular works.
- Gene editing--Moral and ethical aspects--Popular works.
- Medical genetics--Popular works.
- Medical genetics.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hero, 2022.
- Summary:
- "The advancement of the new genetic technology has hurtled forward at breakneck speed. When the first genetically modified children, the twins Lulu and Nana, were born in China in 2018, it became clear that humanity was facing possibilities that we had, previously, only been able to imagine. With the pair of genetic scissors known as CRISPR, we could potentially choose the traits of our children and avoid aging and disease. But with that ability comes a new set of risks, forcing us to face hard ethical and societal questions. Torill Kornfeldt has traveled all over the world to meet the people who are driving the research forward. She has visited fertility clinics in South Korea, oncologists in China who are experimenting on sick patients, and biohackers in the US who want to make the new technology available to everyone. In The Unnatural Selection of Our Species, she examines recent developments in gene editing and what might still be waiting around the corner"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction - A Time of Radical Change
- 1. A Modern Prometheus
- 2. Build Your Own Baby
- 3. Biohackers
- 4. The Gene Race
- 5. Storm in a Bowl of Yoghurt
- 6. Unruly Peas
- 7. Gene Therapy among Gilded Temples
- 8. Panacea
- 9. Avatars
- 10. A Huge Spider's Web
- 11. A Modern-Day Horoscope
- 12. A Place You Didn't Think Existed
- Epilogue - Do You Suffer from Freckles?
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Sources and Further Reading
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781800313439
- 1800313438
- OCLC:
- 1323253202
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