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THE GENESIS MACHINE: OUR QUEST TO REWRITE LIFE IN THE AGE A. Webb A. Hessel NEW
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- PublicAffairs
- ISBN-10
- 1541797914
- ISBN
- 9781541797918
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1541797914
ISBN-13
9781541797918
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050383468
Product Key Features
Book Title
Genesis Machine : Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Industries / Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Life Sciences / Biology, Forecasting
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-045281
Reviews
"The book is a brilliant narrative of the future of human life. Webb and Hessel explain the complex matter in such a way that experts and laypeople alike can follow, whose biology lessons were a while ago."-- Handelsblatt, "[A] thought-provoking introduction to synthetic biology...[a] breathtaking science, but it is also scary. Who's in charge, and where are the brakes?"-- Booklist
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
572.86
Synopsis
Named one of The New Yorker's BEST BOOKS OF 2022 SO FAR The next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies. Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field--which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code--has created revolutionary, groundbreaking solutions such as the mRNA COVID vaccines, IVF, and lab-grown hamburger that tastes like the real thing. It gives us options to deal with existential threats: climate change, food insecurity, and access to fuel. But there are significant risks. Who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? What cyber-biological risks are looming? Could a future biological war, using engineered organisms, cause a mass extinction event? Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon., Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field-which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code-has created revolutionary, groundbreaking solutions such as the mRNA COVID vaccines, IVF, and lab-grown hamburger that tastes like the real thing. It gives us options to deal with existential threats: climate change, food insecurity, and access to fuel.But there are significant risks.Who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? What cyber-biological risks are looming? Could a future biological war, using engineered organisms, cause a mass extinction event? Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon.
LC Classification Number
QH438.7.W43 2022
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