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As gods, a moral history of the genetic age, Matthew Cobb

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As gods, a moral history of the genetic age, Matthew Cobb

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

As gods

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bibliography

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Matthew Cobb

Sub title

a moral history of the genetic age

Summary

In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of the genetic age. Four times in the last fifty years, geneticists, frightened by their own technology, have called a temporary halt to their experiments. They ought to be frightened: Now we have powers that can target the extinction of pests, change our own genes, or create dangerous new versions of diseases in an attempt to prevent future pandemics. Both awe-inspiring and chilling, As Gods traces the history of genetic engineering, showing that this revolutionary technology is far too important to be left to the scientists

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