Modern Prometheus - Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9Paperback
Modern Prometheus - Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9Paperback Would you change your genes if you could? This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty.…
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Modern Prometheus - Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9Paperback
Would you change your genes if you could? This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome.
Kozubek weaves together the fascinating stories of many of the scientists involved in the development of gene editing technology. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing techniques to the present day, this is the story of gene editing - the science, the impact and the potential. Along the way, he demystifies how the technology really works and provides vivid and thought-provoking reflections on the continuing ethical debate.
This updated paperback edition contains all the very latest on the patent battle over Crisp and the