A crack in creation : the new power to control evolution / Jennifer Doudna, Samuel Sternberg.

By:

Doudna, Jennifer A [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : The Bodley Head 2017Description: 304 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781847923813 (hbk.) :

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Additional physical formats: ebook version:: No titleDDC classification:

572.88 DOU 23

LOC classification:

QH450.25

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Prologue: The wave -- Part I.The tool -- 1.The quest for a cure -- 2.A new defense -- 3.Cracking the code -- 4.Command and control -- Part II.The task -- 5.The CRISPR menagerie -- 6.To heal the sick -- 7.The reckoning -- 8.What lies ahead -- Epilogue: The beginning.

Summary: It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings. Unlike previous techniques, it hands us that power wholesale - and with it, the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, and the power to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends. Jennifer Doudna is the co-inventor of this technology, known as CRISPR, and a scientist of worldwide renown. Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, here she provides the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of. More than this, this book asks us to consider what our new-found power means: how do we enjoy its unprecedented benefits while avoiding its equally unprecedented dangers?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	572.88 DOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		223922

Includes bibliographical references and index.

It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings. Unlike previous techniques, it hands us that power wholesale - and with it, the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, and the power to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends. Jennifer Doudna is the co-inventor of this technology, known as CRISPR, and a scientist of worldwide renown. Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, here she provides the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of. More than this, this book asks us to consider what our new-found power means: how do we enjoy its unprecedented benefits while avoiding its equally unprecedented dangers?

Also issued online.