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    Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
    Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
    Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
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    Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures

    Written by Nessa Carey

    Narrated by Karen Cass

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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? If a person is suffering from a lethal genetic disease, is it even more unethical to deny them this option? Who controls the application of this technology, when it makes ‘biohacking’—perhaps of one’s own genome—a real possibility?

    Nessa Carey’s book is a thrilling and timely snapshot of a technology that will radically alter our futures.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781721386666
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    Nessa Carey

    Nessa Carey worked in the biotech and pharma industry for thirteen years and is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. Her previous books for Icon are The Epigenetics Revolution (2011), described by The Guardian as ‘a book that would have had Darwin swooning’, and Junk DNA (2015), ‘a cutting-edge guide to the ever-more mysterious genome’ (New Scientist).

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    • 5/5
      I enjoyed listening to this book. It was a pleasant addition to Jennifer Doudna's book, "A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution."

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    • 4/5
      Good historical review of crispr. Few chapters on evolution are digressions and could’ve been removed.
    • 5/5
      Its a beautiful introduction into genome editing field, it is an area that carry an unbelievable range of growth and discoveries. Love to see what the future carry
    • 4/5
      Definitely an informative book. Brings everyone up to date (as much as is possible in a fast moving field such as this can be done in a published book). The author shoots straight on a variety of topics within the field of genetic editing. Includes many examples in an assortment of areas such as plant life, insects, reptiles, mammals and of course humans - where DNA editing has already been successfully used. Sometimes with good and sometimes with not so good results. A must read for those of us who are interested in this field but can't or don't want to wade through all the technical jargon in Cell. The future of DNA editing is exciting and somewhat alarming but I'm sure Carey will keep us all posted on a regular basis.