Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution - Couverture souple

Doudna, Jennifer A; Sternberg, Samuel H

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1328915360 ISBN 13 : 9781328915368

Editeur : Mariner, 2018

Synopsis

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

  

“The future is in our hands as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no other.” — George Lucas

“Required reading for every concerned citizen.” — New York Review of Books

 

Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers. Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA could have myriad, unforeseeable consequences—to say nothing of the ethical and societal repercussions of intentionally mutating embryos to create “better” humans. Writing with fellow researcher Sam Sternberg, Doudna shares the thrilling story of her discovery and describes the enormous responsibility that comes with the power to rewrite the code of life.

 

“An invaluable account . . . We owe Doudna several times over.” — Guardian

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

JENNIFER A. DOUDNA, Ph.D. is a professor in the Chemistry and the Molecular and Cell Biology Departments at the University of California, Berkeley, investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and researcher in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is internationally recognized as a leading expert on RNA-protein biochemistry, CRISPR biology, and genome engineering. Along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, she was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research on CRISPR-Cas9. She lives in the Bay Area.

DR. SAMUEL H. STERNBERG is a protein-RNA biochemist and author of numerous high-profile scientific publications on CRISPR technology. He runs a research laboratory at Columbia University, where he is assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. He lives in New York City.
 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1328915360
• ISBN 13: 9781328915368
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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