Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing

by Josephine Johnston

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, meaning that changes can be passed to the offspring of the person that embryo becomes.

Should we use gene editing technologies to change ourselves,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190940360
• ISBN13: 9780190940362
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"