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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 [electronic resource] : gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution / Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg.

Doudna, Jennifer A. (Author). Sternberg, Samuel H. (Author). OverDrive, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780544716964
  • ISBN: 0544716965
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

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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.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Subject: Gene Editing > history.
CRISPR-Cas Systems.
Genetic Code.
Genetic Research > history.
United States.
Genetic engineering > History.
Genetic code.
Genetics > Research > History.
Genre: Electronic books.

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