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Hacking the Code of Life

How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures

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Hacking the Code of Life

Written by: Nessa Carey
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year.

But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or "gene editing". Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago.

But is it ethical to change the genetic material of organisms in a way that might be passed on to future generations? If a person is suffering from a lethal genetic disease, is it even more unethical to deny them this option? Who controls the application of this technology, when it makes "biohacking" - perhaps of one’s own genome - a real possibility?

Nessa Carey’s book is a thrilling and timely snapshot of a technology that will radically alter our futures.

©2019 by Nessa Carey. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Biological Sciences Physical Illness & Disease Science
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Nessa Carey, excellent author! Simple, interesting. Narration absorbing voice! Go for it. Worth it.

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