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A crack in creation gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution  Cover Image E-book E-book

A crack in creation gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution

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  • ISBN: 0544716949
  • ISBN: 9780544716940
  • ISBN: 0544716965
  • ISBN: 9780544716964
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 281 pages)
    remote
    electronic resource
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 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).
Subject: Genetics -- Research
Genetic engineering
Genetic code
Gene editing
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology
United States
Genetic Research -- history
Genetic Code
CRISPR-Cas Systems
Gene Editing -- history
Genetics -- Research -- History
Genetic code
Genetic engineering -- History
Gene editing
Genre: History.
Electronic books.

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