Pre-Owned A Crack in Creation : Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover) 9780544716940

from breic

This is truly awful, a paper-thin overview of CRISPR technology. If you get your popular science from USA Today, you're well beyond the target audience. I wanted to learn some of the details of the science, some of the tradeoffs of the technology, and some of the dirt on the politics. There's non...

from SChant

A very dry style delivering vast amounts of information, but it does highlight the complex steps and huge numbers of people involved in deliviering such a complex tool as CRISPR-Cas9. I know it's specifically about the science, but I did become concerned that she blithely enumerated the enormous ...

from ajlewis2

A great account of the development Doudna (and co-author) has done with gene editing in the first part of the book. The second part is likewise well-written. Here she discusses her thoughts and actions regarding the potential uses and the need for discussion for regulation of that use. I think th...

from eclecticism

The authors tell the story of the discovery of the gene editing technology called called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) (of DNA), current experimental results, future potential applications, and finally ethical and social questions regarding use of the same. Th...