A crack in creation gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution
Record details
- ISBN: 0544716949
- ISBN: 9780544716940
- ISBN: 0544716965
- ISBN: 9780544716964
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 281 pages)
remote
electronic resource - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The quest for a cure -- A new defense -- Cracking the code -- Command and control -- The CRISPR menagerie -- To heal the sick -- The reckoning -- What lies ahead -- Epilogue : the beginning. |
Summary, etc.: | A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2017). |
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Genre: | History. Electronic books. |
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