Hacking the code of life : how gene editing will rewrite our futures / Nessa Carey.
By: Carey, Nessa [author.].
Publisher: London : Icon Books, ©2019Description: 181 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785784972.Subject(s): Medical genetics -- Popular works | Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Popular works | Genetic regulation -- Popular works | Genetic regulation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Popular works | Genetic regulation | Medical genetics | Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspectsGenre/Form: Popular works. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RB155 .C37 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015250 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The early days -- Creating the toolbox to hack the code of life -- Feed the world -- Editing the animal world -- Gene editing ourselves -- Safety first -- Changing the genome for ever -- Shall man still have domination -- Pick a question, any question -- Fame and fortune.
Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year. But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or 'gene editing'. Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago. But is it ethical to change the genetic material of organisms in a way that might be passed on to future generations?