Hacking the code of life : how gene editing will rewrite our futures
Carey, Nessa2019
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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 Books, 2019.
Collation:
176 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781785784972 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
616.042
Language:
English
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BRN:
1900317
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