Download A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution AudioBook Free
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the largest scientific discovery of your era: an inexpensive, easy way of rewriting hereditary code, with nearly limitless offer and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the entire world about its use. Not, that is, before planting season of 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the new gene-editing tool CRISPR - a revolutionary new technology that she helped create - to make heritable changes in individual embryos. The cheapest, simplest, best approach of manipulating DNA ever before known, CRISPR may give us the treat to HIV, hereditary diseases, and some cancers and can help talk about the world's hunger problems. Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA might have myriad unforeseeable results - to state nothing at all of the ethical and societal repercussions of intentionally mutating embryos to produce "better" humans. Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, Doudna stocks the thrilling storyline of her finding and passionately argues that enormous responsibility includes the ability to rewrite the code of life. With CRISPR, she shows, we've effectively considered control of progression. What will we do with this unfathomable ability?
