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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: mutant project
    sub title: inside the global race to genetically modify humans
  name:
    name part: Kirksey, Eben
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 292 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies, twin girls named Lulu and Nana, sending shock waves 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 program, gene editing is fueling 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, from the United States to Indonesia, can we shape research agendas to promote an ethical and fair society? Eben Kirksey takes us on a groundbreaking journey to meet the key scientists, lobbyists and entrepreneurs who are bringing cutting-edge genetic engineering tools like CRISPR to your local clinic. He also ventures beyond the scientific echo chamber, talking to disabled scholars, doctors, hackers, chronically-ill patients and activists 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 brave new world.
  table of contents: The Mutant Timeline -- Prologue: The World on Notice -- 1: I'm Quite Glad That I Wasn't First -- 2: The China Story -- 3: The Best Humans Haven't Been Produced Yet -- 4: Winner Takes All -- 5: Look at Those Muscles, Look at That Butt -- 6: A Moral Choice -- 7: Will I Have to Mortgage My House? -- 8: The Cancer Moonshot -- 9: Free Health Care for All -- 10: Silence = Death -- 11: Immortality Has to Be the Goal -- 12: I Don't Want to Walk, I Want to Fly -- 13: High-Quality Children -- 14: #Transracial -- 15: American Medicine and Only for You -- 16: He Was Busy, Busy, Always Doing Research -- 17: A Hammer, Looking for a Nail -- 18: Beautiful Lies -- 19: Two Healthy Baby Girls? -- 20: Mixed Wisdom -- 21: They Are Moving Forward -- 22: Chinese Scientists Are Creating CRISPR Babies -- 23: Bubbles Vanishing into Air -- 24: The Horse has Already Bolted -- Epilogue: We Have Never Been Human.
  note: Eben Kirksey.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Genetic engineering
  subject:
    topic: Human genetics
  subject:
    topic: Human genome
  subject:
    topic: Mutation (Biology)
  subject:
    topic: Human body
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General
  classification: QH442 .K55 2020
  classification: 576.5
  identifier: 9781250265357
  identifier: 1250265355
  identifier: 9781250265364
  identifier: 2020021897
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200514
    record change date: 20210422122703.0
    record identifier: in00004400480