Hacking the Code of Life - Nessa Carey - 2019 (Technology) [Audiobook] (miok)

Hacking the Code of Life - Nessa Carey - 2019
How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures



By: Nessa Carey
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-11-19
Language: English
Genre: Science & Technology, Biology
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Format: mp3 64/44.1 mono

Publisher's Summary

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.

©2019 by Nessa Carey. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.





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