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The Mutant Project - Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (Paperback)
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The Mutant Project - Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (Paperback)
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Loot Price R452
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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 An anthropologist
visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask:
whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the
implications for humanity? At a conference in Hong Kong in November
2018, Dr. Jiankui He announced that he had created the first
genetically modified babies-twin girls named Lulu and Nana-sending
shockwaves around the world. A year later, a Chinese court
sentenced Dr. He to three years in prison for "illegal medical
practice." As scientists elsewhere start to catch up with China's
vast genetic research programme, gene editing is fuelling an
innovation economy that threatens to widen racial and economic
inequality. Fundamental questions about science, health, and social
justice are at stake. Who gets access to gene-editing technologies?
As countries loosen regulations around the globe, can we shape
research agendas to promote an ethical and fair society? Professor
Eben Kirksey takes us on a groundbreaking journey to meet the key
scientists, lobbyists, and entrepreneurs who are bringing
cutting-edge genetic modification tools like CRISPR to your local
clinic. He also ventures beyond the scientific echo chamber,
talking to doctors, hackers, chronically ill patients, disabled
scholars, and activists and who have alternative visions of a
genetically modified future for humanity. The Mutant Project
empowers us to ask the right questions, uncover the truth, and
navigate this new era of scientific enquiry.
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