Hacking the code of life : how gene editing will rewrite our futures
Carey, Nessa2020
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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?
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Author:
Carey, Nessa, author
Imprint:
London : Icon, 2020.
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181 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781785786259 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
616.042616.042 CARE616.042 CAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
1920550
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