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Author:
Matthew Cobb
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
November 15, 2022
In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of the genetic age. Four times in the last fifty years, geneticists, frightened by their own technology, have called a temporary halt to their experiments. They ought to be frightened: Now we have powers that can target the extinction of pests, change our own genes, or create dangerous new versions of diseases in an attempt to prevent future pandemics.
What The Reviewers Say
Wonderful...a thoughtful, lively and evocative exposition of the history of genetic engineering.
Deeply researched and often deeply troubling.
A sober reflection.
