The gene machine : how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have / Bonnie Rochman
Publisher: New York : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 272 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374160784
- RB155 .R63 2017
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| RB155 .P566 2011 Debating human genetics : | RB155 .P6965 2013 Medical genetics at a glance / | RB155.R4 2015 New clinical genetics 3 / | RB155 .R63 2017 The gene machine : | RB155 .S32 2014 Medical genetics : | RB155 .S62 2016 Genomics and personalized medicine : | RB155 .S985 2013 The story within : |
Includes bibliographical references and index
How the Jews beat Tay-Sachs (carrier screening) -- Rewriting a family's history of cancer (preimplantation diagnosis) -- The other scarlet A (abortion) -- Silencing a gene (the future of Down syndrome) -- What do parents want to know? (variants of unknown significance) -- Do you have a right to an open future? (return of results) -- How to hunt a zebra (rare disease) -- The genie in the bottle (universal sequencing)
"A researched exploration of the promises and vulnerabilities of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions considers key scientific, technological and political factors while sharing the stories of men and women struggling to understand the range of the tests and their revelations,"--NoveList