As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

by Matthew Cobb

Book Overview

The thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541602854
• ISBN13: 9781541602854
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.2" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary