The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds

ISBN-13: 9780262543842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str.

Christopher E. Mason

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: THE EMBRYOGENESIS OF HUMANITY xi
1 THE FIRST GENETIC ASTRONAUTS 1
2 THE DUTY TO ENGINEER 15
3 PHASE 1: THE LANDSCAPE OF FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
(2010 2020) 27
4 PHASE 2: PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING OF GENOMES
(2021 2040) 47
5 PHASE 3: LONG-TERM TRIALS OF HUMAN AND CELLULAR
ENGINEERING (2041 2100) 97
6 PHASE 4: PREPARING HUMANS FOR SPACE (2101 2150) 115
7 PHASE 5: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FOR NEW HOMES
(2151 2200) 133
8 PHASE 6: EXPANDING THE LIMITS OF LIFE (2201 2250) 155
9 PHASE 7: TEST A GENERATION SHIP AND SETTLE HARSH
WORLDS (2251 2350) 169
10 PHASE 8: SETTLE NEW EARTHS (2351 2400) 191
11 PHASE 9: LAUNCH TOWARD THE SECOND SUN (2401 2500) 213
12 PHASE 10: OPTIMISTIC UNKNOWNS (BEYOND 2500) 247
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 255
REFERENCES 259
INDEX 267

O autorze

Christopher E. Mason is a geneticist and computational biologist who has been a Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of 11 NASA missions and projects. He is Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with affiliate appointments at the Meyer Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School.