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Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

A Crack in Creation

Jennifer A. Doudna

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...and I have spent the majority of my career in a laboratory, conducting research on topics that most people outside of my field have never heard of.
science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.Kitabı okudu
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“Humans have been reshaping the physical world for millennia, but the effects have never been as dramatic as they are today. Industrialization has caused climate change that threatens ecosystems around the globe, and this and other human activities have precipitated a surge in species extinction that is ravaging the diverse populations of creatures with which we share this earth.”
Gene editing holds the promise of life-changing treatments and in some cases, lifesaving cures. But there are other profound implications of CRISPR technology: it can be used not just to treat diseases in living humans but also to prevent diseases in future humans.
“For the roughly one hundred thousand years of modern humans’ existence, the Homo sapiens genome has been shaped by the twin forces of random mutation and natural selection. Now, for the first time ever, we possess the ability to edit not only the DNA of every living human but also the DNA of future generations—in essence, to direct the evolution of our own species.”