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BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  
“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of Books 
 
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers. Yet even the

A Crack In Creation

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    A Paperback / softback by Jennifer A Doudna, Samuel H Sternberg

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      Publisher Houghton Mifflin
      Published 21 August 2018
      ISBN-13 9781328915368
      978-1328915368
      ISBN-10 1328915360
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      Biology, life sciences Genetics (non-medical) Biotechnology

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      Book Synopsis
      BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
        
      “A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of Books 
       
      Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers. Yet even the

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