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The world-renowned scientist Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the groundbreaking gene-editing technique CRISPR, explains her discovery, describes its power to influence the future of all forms of life, and warns about its use.
A handful of discoveries have changed the course of human history. This book refers to the most recent and potentially the most powerful and dangerous of them. It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings. As a result, the dreams of genetic manipulation have become harsh reality: the power to cure diseases and alleviate pain, as well as to redesign any species, including humans, for our own purposes.
Jennifer Doudna is the co-discoverer of this technology—known as CRISPR—and a scientist of international renown. Together with her collaborator Samuel Sternberg, she provides here the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this marvelous invention works and what it is capable of achieving. She also invites the reader to consider what this new power means: how can we enjoy its unprecedented benefits while avoiding its equally unprecedented perils?
PAGES: 304, DIMENSIONS: 12.9x12.9cm
Manufacturer
- Authors
- Jennifer Doudna, Samuel Sternberg
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Type
- Technology
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- The New Power to Control Evolution
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781784702762
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