Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

ISBN-13: 9781108454629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 474 str.

Jim Kozubek

Opis

This book tells the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Kozubek, Jim 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.