The Unnatural Selection of Our Species
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The Unnatural Selection of Our Species by Torill Kornfeldt
How are we supposed to handle these new tools that could end up changing our genetic material?The advancement of the new genetic technology has hurtled forward at breakneck speed. When the first genetically modified children, the twins Lulu and Nana, were born in China in 2018, it became clear that humanity was facing possibilities that we had, previously, only been able to imagine. With the pair of genetic scissors known as CRISPR, we could potentially choose the traits of our children and avoid ageing and disease. But with that ability comes a new set of risks, forcing us to face hard ethical and societal questions.
Torill Kornfeldt has traveled all over the world to meet the people who are driving the research forward. She has visited fertility clinics in South Korea, oncologists in China who are experimenting on sick patients, and biohackers in the US who want to make the new technology available to everyone. In>The Unnatural Selection of Our Species, she examines recent developments in gene editing and what might still be waiting around the corner.
How are we supposed to handle these new tools that could end up changing our genetic material?
The advancement of the new genetic technology has hurtled forward at breakneck speed. When the first genetically modified children, the twins Lulu and Nana, were born in China in 2018, it became clear that humanity was facing possibilities that we had, previously, only been able to imagine. With the pair of genetic scissors known as CRISPR, we could potentially choose the traits of our children and avoid ageing and disease. But with that ability comes a new set of risks, forcing us to face hard ethical and societal questions.
Torill Kornfeldt has traveled all over the world to meet the people who are driving the research forward. She has visited fertility clinics in South Korea, oncologists in China who are experimenting on sick patients, and biohackers in the US who want to make the new technology available to everyone. In>The Unnatural Selection of Our Species, she examines recent developments in gene editing and what might still be waiting around the corner.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800313422 |
| ISBN 10 | 180031342X |
| Title | The Unnatural Selection of Our Species |
| Author | Torill Kornfeldt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Legend Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-10-08 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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