
Hacking the Code of Life
How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
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Karen Cass
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Nessa Carey
Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year.
But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or "gene editing". Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago.
But is it ethical to change the genetic material of organisms in a way that might be passed on to future generations? If a person is suffering from a lethal genetic disease, is it even more unethical to deny them this option? Who controls the application of this technology, when it makes "biohacking" - perhaps of one’s own genome - a real possibility?
Nessa Carey’s book is a thrilling and timely snapshot of a technology that will radically alter our futures.
©2019 by Nessa Carey. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Not captivating nor intriguing story at all.
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After a brief introduction, the author focuses on gene editing using CRISPR; no surprise here. She does not really say much about how CRISPR works, and spends more time on patent battles than on the scientific details. While she discusses some of the ways genes have been edited or could be edited, and the purpose of such changes, this is really quite perfunctory.
The book simply seems to lack a clear purpose and focus, and so one bounces from one idea to the next without an overarching narrative. It was okay, but not great.
The narrator was good, with no major missteps.
A brief dip of the toe
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Enjoyable listen
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okay book
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Overall the content generally lines up with what I know of the field, though I'm no expert. At times she does raise some interesting questions and conundrums which will need to be addressed as the science moves forward. If you're looking for a broad overview of the field this succeeds in that regard, though as others have noted, with a field moving along so quickly how long this information remains current is anyone's guess.
Decent Overview. Could lose sarcasm.
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Good layman insight to complex issue
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I felt that the book did a great job reviewing the state of the art of this area of science. Not only the science, but also gave insights into the regulatory difficulties, the people behind the science and she even touched on some of the ethical issues. She succeeded in being balanced and even - i.e., no moral preening that was present in other books on this topic. Probably the most sensationalistic part of the book is the title - but authors sometimes don't get to choose this.
I saw another post about the audio being bad - I had no such complaints.
The only fear I have about this book is that because the science is moving so quickly, it may have a short shelf life. So...listen to it now!
Great survey on the state of the art of genetics
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A New World
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Wonderfull Book
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