D Carroll, BJ Meyer - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
“Life 2.0” may sound like hyperbole—suggesting a radical change in modes of existence— but that was the title of a Colloquium held at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California, in …
One of the world's leading experts on genetics unravels one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science and medicine. IIf our genes are, to a great extent, our …
N Baer, RM West, GK Gronvall, M Darnovsky… - 2024 - muse.jhu.edu
summary A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology. Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the …
M Montenegro - Ensia. Available at http://ensia. com/voices/crispr-is …, 2016 - academia.edu
VERY FEW TECHNOLOGIES TRULY MERIT any the epithet “game changer”—but a new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is one of them. Since we irst developed …
Walter Isaacson, one of America's foremost biographers, recently told me that he sees three fundamental units as the cornerstones of 20th-century innovation: the bit, the atom, and the …
R Garland-Thomson - Perspectives in biology and medicine, 2020 - muse.jhu.edu
This article considers the existential and eugenic risks of gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9. It brings forward epistemological and phenomenological questions concerning what CRISPR …
S BioSciences - Nature Biotechnology, 2017 - nature.com
The first clinical trial in the US of a therapy based on the CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing system is more likely to be conducted by an academic group than by one of the biotech firms most …
L Montoliu, J Merchant, F Hirsch, M Abecassis… - The CRISPR …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Genome editing is a transformative technology that allows precise and sophisticated genetic alterations in any genome thanks to a variety of molecular editors. The CRISPR*-Cas9 …
There are key moments in the history of every disruptive technology that can make or break its public perception and acceptance. For CRISPR-based genome editing, such a moment …