CRISPR Chronicles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook CRISPR Chronicles write by James Ellis. This book was released on 2023-10-31. CRISPR Chronicles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Welcome to the dawn of the genetic age: a revolutionary epoch where the very code of life can be edited at will. As humanity stands on the brink of a genetic revolution, "CRISPR Chronicles: Navigating the Ethics, Promises, and Perils of Gene Editing" presents an engaging and comprehensive exploration of the revolutionary CRISPR technology. With this book as your guide, you'll embark on an intriguing journey through the wonders of genetic engineering, uncovering the fascinating science behind CRISPR and its real-world applications. From eradicating diseases and feeding a growing population sustainably, to groundbreaking developments in biofuels and materials, the possibilities are astounding. But with great power comes profound ethical dilemmas. We explore the controversial boundaries between medical treatment and genetic enhancement, and the moral conundrums they raise. Is it right to edit the genes of unborn children? How can we distinguish between beneficial treatment and controversial enhancement? Who will have access to this technology, and how will it reshape society? With expert opinions, thought-provoking hypothetical scenarios, and a look at the roles of media and public perception, "CRISPR Chronicles" is not just about understanding the science; it's about confronting the critical societal and ethical issues and reflecting on how we, as a society, will shape and be shaped by the genetic revolution. This is your guidebook at the crossroads of destiny, where science, ethics, and society converge, and in doing so will define the trajectory of humanity's future.
The Code Breaker
The Code Breaker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Code Breaker write by Walter Isaacson. This book was released on 2021-03-09. The Code Breaker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code. Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids? After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.
Altered Inheritance
Altered Inheritance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Altered Inheritance write by Françoise Baylis. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Altered Inheritance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Françoise Baylis insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this new era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our future as a species.
Editing Humanity
Editing Humanity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Editing Humanity write by Kevin Davies. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Editing Humanity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the world's leading experts on genetics unravels one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science and medicine. IIf our genes are, to a great extent, our destiny, then what would happen if mankind could engineer and alter the very essence of our DNA coding? Millions might be spared the devastating effects of hereditary disease or the challenges of disability, whether it was the pain of sickle-cell anemia to the ravages of Huntington’s disease. But this power to “play God” also raises major ethical questions and poses threats for potential misuse. For decades, these questions have lived exclusively in the realm of science fiction, but as Kevin Davies powerfully reveals in his new book, this is all about to change. Engrossing and page-turning, Editing Humanity takes readers inside the fascinating world of a new gene editing technology called CRISPR, a high-powered genetic toolkit that enables scientists to not only engineer but to edit the DNA of any organism down to the individual building blocks of the genetic code. Davies introduces readers to arguably the most profound scientific breakthrough of our time. He tracks the scientists on the front lines of its research to the patients whose powerful stories bring the narrative movingly to human scale. Though the birth of the “CRISPR babies” in China made international news, there is much more to the story of CRISPR than headlines seemingly ripped from science fiction. In Editing Humanity, Davies sheds light on the implications that this new technology can have on our everyday lives and in the lives of generations to come.
CRISPR People
CRISPR People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook CRISPR People write by Henry T. Greely. This book was released on 2022-03-01. CRISPR People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us? In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos—as dramatic a development in genetics as the 1996 cloning of Dolly the sheep. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chinese scientist He Jiankui did, how he did it, and how the public and other scientists learned about and reacted to this unprecedented genetic intervention. The two babies, nonidentical twin girls, were the first “CRISPR'd” people ever born (CRISPR, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a powerful gene-editing method). Greely not only describes He's experiment and its public rollout (aided by a public relations adviser) but also considers, in a balanced and thoughtful way, the lessons to be drawn both from these CRISPR'd babies and, more broadly, from this kind of human DNA editing—“germline editing” that can be passed on from one generation to the next. Greely doesn't mince words, describing He's experiment as grossly reckless, irresponsible, immoral, and illegal. Although he sees no inherent or unmanageable barriers to human germline editing, he also sees very few good uses for it—other, less risky, technologies can achieve the same benefits. We should consider the implications carefully before we proceed.
