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Nature remade : engineering life, envisioning worlds / edited by Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Convening science. Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Convening science. Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bioengineering.
- Biotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Every few months, we read a new headline describing researchers' attempts to 'engineer' the natural world. One recent example is the announcement of the birth of two human babies, whose genes have been 'edited' using a gene-modification tool known as CRISPR. While the very idea of manipulating human development is shocking, it's only the most recent development in a line of engineering endeavours that include cloud-seeding, ocean-fertilization, and animal cloning. Historians Luis Campos, Michael Dietrich, and Tiago Saraiva along with biologist Christian Young have curated the essays in this volume, which explores the history of biological engineering from the gene to the environment.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, Christian C. Young
- Knowing and controlling / Christian H. Ross
- A tale of two rats / Anita Guerrini
- Cloning as rooting / Tiago Saraiva
- Harvesting hogzillas / Abraham Gibson
- Design and narrative in DNA analysis and synthesis / Dominic J. Berry
- Behavioral engineering and problems of animal misbehavior / Edmund Ramsden
- Engineering spaces for the biological effects of fission / Joshua McGuffie
- A matter of taste / Lisa Onaga
- Cybernetics without the cyborg / Richard Fadok
- Strains of Andromeda / Luis A. Campos
- Engineering human nature in the Genome Age / Nathaniel Comfort
- Engineering uplift / Ayah Nuriddin
- Terraforming planets, geoengineering earth / James Rodger Fleming
- Resurrecting the sublime / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9780226783574
- 022678357X
- OCLC:
- 1252421888
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