Hacking the Code of Life
€14.15
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781785786259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nessa Carey |
| Publisher | Icon Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.146 |
| Publishing Date | 02/07/2020 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.35 |
| Tax | €0.80 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.15 |
| Availability | 4 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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 ones own genome a real possibility?
Nessa Careys book is a thrilling and timely snapshot of a technology that will radically alter our futures.