Jennifer A. Doudna

Crack in Creation (eBook, ePUB)

Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ';A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizenthe material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.' 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 CRISPRa revolutionary new technology that she helped createto 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, Doudnawho has since won the Nobel Prize for her CRISPR researchshares the thrilling story of her discovery and describes the enormous responsibility that comes with the power to rewrite the code of life.';The future is in our hands as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no other.' George Lucas';An invaluable account . . . We owe Doudna several times over.' Guardian

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544716964
• Artikelnr.: 47465228

Autorenporträt

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.