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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Webb, Amy, 1974-     Subjects     Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Synthetic biology -- Social aspects.     Synthetic biology -- History.     Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.     CRISPR (Genetics) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Webb, Amy, 1974-       by title:      The Genesis machine ...       by call number:      572.86 W365g     Search the Web     Webb, Amy, 1974-     Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Synthetic biology -- Social aspects.     Synthetic biology -- History.     Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.     CRISPR (Genetics) -- History.       MARC Display

The Genesis machine : our quest to rewrite life in the age of synthetic biology / Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel. by Webb, Amy, 1974- PublicAffairs, 2022. Call #: 572.86 W365g Subjects Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Synthetic biology -- Social aspects.   Synthetic biology -- History.   Bioengineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.   CRISPR (Genetics) -- History. ISBN:  9781541797918 (hc.) Alternate title:  Our quest to rewrite life in the age of synthetic biology Edition:  1st ed. Description:  x, 352 p. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-337) and index. Summary:  "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 re-engineer 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." Other authors:  Hessel, Andrew. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 572.86 W365g Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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