Crispr People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

by Henry T Greely and Henry T. Greely

Book Overview

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us?

In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos--as dramatic a development in genetics as the 1996 cloning of Dolly the sheep. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262543885
• ISBN13: 9780262543880
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 7.9"