Purse strings, patients, and personal glory The Mutant Project Eben Kirksey St. Martin's Press, 2020. 304 pp
An anthropologist investigates the factors shaping modern genetic medicine The Mutant Project provides readers with an intriguing picture of the events, ambitions, and deceptions that led up to the birth of the first gene-edited babies in October 2018, but these insights are only part of what makes...
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| Published in | Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 370; no. 6520; p. 1044 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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27.11.2020
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | An anthropologist investigates the factors shaping modern genetic medicine
The Mutant Project
provides readers with an intriguing picture of the events, ambitions, and deceptions that led up to the birth of the first gene-edited babies in October 2018, but these insights are only part of what makes it such a fascinating read. At its core, the book is a complex analysis of the global culture in which the project of heritable human genome editing is now developing. |
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| ISSN: | 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.abf2842 |