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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: genesis machine
    sub title: our quest to rewrite life in the age of synthetic biology
  name:
    name part: Webb, Amy
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hessel, Andrew
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 352 pages : portrait ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Synthetic biology is the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence, opening up the potential to program biological systems much as we program computers. Synthetic biology enables us not just to read and edit DNA, the technique of CRISPR, but also write it. Rather than life being "a beautiful game of chance," synthetic biology creates the potential to control our genetic destiny, to say "no" to bad genes and build a veritable genetic app store for downloading and adding new capabilities into any cell, microbe, plant or animal. Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting stories include the work of scientists to develop plants that can be grown in sprawling indoor farms capable of feeding millions with a fraction of the usual resources required, a synthetic, self-regulating insulin that doesn't require injections or a pump, life-altering regenerative, personalized medicine and novel, durable solutions to climate change. There is also whimsy, such as the dream of some geneticists to "unextinct" the wooly mammoth. By examining both the science and the ethical, moral and religious issues surrounding synthetic biology, Webb and Hessel provide the background for preventing its misuse by some to reengineer their bodies and that of their children, further increasing the disturbing division and polarization of societies into the haves (the enhanced) and the have nots. They provide the background for making wise decisions about issues such as whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will "own" living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab. Whether we approve or disapprove of synthetic biology, it is coming. Now, we need to understand its promise and peril. Webb and Hessel help us understand the science as well as the political and societal issues involved.
  table of contents: Part One : Origin -- Saying No to Bad Genes : The Birth of the Genesis Machine -- A Race to the Starting Line -- The Bricks of Life -- God, a Church, and a (Mostly) Woolly Mammoth -- Part Two : The Bioeconomy -- The Biological Age -- Nine Risks -- The Story of Golden Rice -- Part Three: Futures -- Exploring the Recently Plausible -- Scenario One : Creating Your Child with Wellspring -- Scenario Two : What Happened When We Canceled Aging -- Scenario Three : Akira Gold's "Where to Eat" -- Scenario Four : The Underground -- Scenario Five : The Memo -- Part Four : The Way Forward -- A New Beginning -- Epilogue
  note: Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Synthetic biology
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Synthetic biology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Genetics
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Genetics
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General
  classification: QH438.7 .W43 2022
  classification: 572.8/6
  identifier: 9781541797918
  identifier: 1541797914
  identifier: 9781541797932
  identifier: 2021045281
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211006
    record change date: 20220509152411.8
    record identifier: in00004566506