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CRISPR people : the science and ethics of editing humans / Henry T. Greely.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]Description: xiii, 380 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262044431
  • 0262044439
Subject(s):
Contents:
Just What Did He Jiankui Do? -- Human Germline Genome Editing-What Is It? -- CRISPR-What Is It and Why Is It Important, and who will benefit from it? -- Ethics Discussion of CRISPR'd Babies before He -- The Law of CRISPR'd Babies before He -- The He Experiment Revealed -- The World Reacts-And So Does China -- Who Knew What When?-Revelations of Pre-Summit Knowledge -- Assessing the He Experiment -- Responses -- Is Human Germline Genome Editing Inherently Bad? -- Could Human Germline Genome Editing Sometimes Be Bad? -- Just How Useful Is Human Germline Genome Editing? -- How To Test Human Germline Genome Editing -- The Big Decisions-and How To Make Them -- Conclusion.
Summary: "Beginning with the amazing tale of the Chinese "CRISPR Babies," Greely tells the complex story of human germline editing, covering the science, ethics, law, and politics"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 611.0181 G794 Available 33111010498661
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us?

In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos--as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chinese scientist He Jiankui did, how he did it, and how the public and other scientists learned about and reacted to this unprecedented genetic intervention.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-369) and index.

Just What Did He Jiankui Do? -- Human Germline Genome Editing-What Is It? -- CRISPR-What Is It and Why Is It Important, and who will benefit from it? -- Ethics Discussion of CRISPR'd Babies before He -- The Law of CRISPR'd Babies before He -- The He Experiment Revealed -- The World Reacts-And So Does China -- Who Knew What When?-Revelations of Pre-Summit Knowledge -- Assessing the He Experiment -- Responses -- Is Human Germline Genome Editing Inherently Bad? -- Could Human Germline Genome Editing Sometimes Be Bad? -- Just How Useful Is Human Germline Genome Editing? -- How To Test Human Germline Genome Editing -- The Big Decisions-and How To Make Them -- Conclusion.

"Beginning with the amazing tale of the Chinese "CRISPR Babies," Greely tells the complex story of human germline editing, covering the science, ethics, law, and politics"-- Provided by publisher.

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