Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9 - Couverture rigide

Kozubek, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107172160 ISBN 13 : 9781107172166

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing techniques to the present day, this is the story of gene editing - the science, the impact and the potential. Kozubek weaves together the fascinating stories of many of the scientists involved in the development of gene editing technology. Along the way, he demystifies how the technology really works and provides vivid and thought-provoking reflections on the continuing ethical debate. Ultimately, Kozubek places the debate in its historical and scientific context to consider both what drives scientific discovery and the implications of the 'commodification' of life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jim Kozubek is a staff scientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital with affiliation to the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kozubek is also an established journalist whose science writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Atlantic and Scientific American, amongst others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107172160
• ISBN 13: 9781107172166
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 395
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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