Modern Prometheus - James Kozubek

Modern Prometheus

Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

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Buch | Softcover
474 Seiten
2018 | Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45462-9 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
This updated paperback edition contains all the very latest on the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.
Would you change your genes if you could? 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. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. 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. Kozubek weaves together the fascinating stories of many of the scientists involved in the development of gene editing technology. 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 applications of Crispr technology in agriculture and medicine.

Jim Kozubek is a data scientist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His science writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, New Scientist, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, Wired, Aeon, Nautilus, Undark, The Boston Globe, STAT and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.

1. Crispr, Cas and capitalists; 2. The gene trade; 3. Asilomar; 4. We can play God in that cell; 5. Modern Prometheus; 6. Biopolitics; 7. Life in a bubble; 8. To summon a Leviathan; 9. A molecular fairytale; 10. Secrets from a freshwater fish; 11. Gene hackers; 12. Washington.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 228 mm
Gewicht 770 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Orthopädie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Genetik / Molekularbiologie
Technik Medizintechnik
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-108-45462-3 / 1108454623
ISBN-13 978-1-108-45462-9 / 9781108454629
Zustand Neuware
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