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A Crack in Creation

: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a tec

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Jennifer Doudna (3)Samuel H. Sternberg (2)Samuel Sternberg (1)

“A hypothesis is only the first step in any rigorous scientific process.”

— Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer Doudna, amazon.com

Tagged: Testing, Science, Hypothesis, Scientific Method

“The genome— a term coined in 1920 by the German botanist Hans Winkler and probably intended as a portmanteau of gene and chromosome— refers to the entire set of genetic instructions found inside a cell. Mostly identical from cell to cell within any given organism save for the occasional mutation, th…”

— Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer Doudna, amazon.com

Tagged: genes, Genetics, Understanding The Genome

“Humans have been reshaping the physical world for millennia, but the effects have never been as dramatic as they are today.”

— Jennifer Doudna, Samuel Sternberg, amazon.com

Tagged: Technological World Re-Making