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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Webb, Amy, 1974- author.     Subjects     Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Synthetic biology -- Social aspects.     Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Genetics -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Webb, Amy, 1974- author.       by title:      The genesis machine ...         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- author. New York : PublicAffairs, 2022. Subjects Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Synthetic biology -- Social aspects.   Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Genetics -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781541797918 (hardcover) : 1541797914 (hardcover) : Description:  x, 352 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 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. Whether we approve or disapprove of synthetic biology, it is coming. Now, we need to understand its promise and peril. Webb and Hessel help us understand the science as well as the political and societal issues involved"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 572.86 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 572.86 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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