CRISPR People, Henry T. Greely
CRISPR People, Henry T. Greely
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CRISPR People
The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

Author: Henry T. Greely

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?

In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos—as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chinese scientist He Jiankui did, how he did it, and how the public and other scientists learned about and reacted to this unprecedented genetic intervention.

About Henry T. Greely

Henry T. Greely is professor of law, professor by courtesy of genetics, and director of the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University, where he also chairs the Steering Committee of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics and directs the Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marks54 on July 24, 2021

Someone wiser than me once suggested that rather than read books individually, it would be better to form one’s queue with related books, to the extent possible - books that share a common subject matter to some degree or overlap in topical focus, or treat similar subjects with different perspective......more

Goodreads review by Rishikesh on April 22, 2025

The book goes into a lot more detail into the ethics, legality, and scientific ego, with only a minimal but sufficient explanation of the crispr tech and genome editing. This is understable from a popular book (I can't call it a popular science book). The central case study into He Jiankui's controve......more

Goodreads review by Matt on July 12, 2023

I stumbled on Greeley’s book, which is a study of a secretive Chinese researcher’s human eugenics project, which was revealed in 2018. It is also an argument about the ethical approaches that are needed in biotech research. This book is excellent and succeeds at a lot of things. Readers get a descri......more

Goodreads review by Emma on May 20, 2024

Giving this book 3 stars but it’s complicated. After taking my science comm class, I’ve been a lot more critical of science communication specifically geared towards a wide audience. This book started excellent, it followed a story line. I loved the candidness of the writing and the chronological la......more

Goodreads review by Ricardo on June 01, 2021

Acabo de leer un artículo en que decía "Tu te puedes cambiar de casa, de número de tarjeta de crédito, pero no de tu DNA". De esto es precisamente lo que se trata este libro. Hoy en día podemos cambiar nuestros genes. Esto podría ser "un milagro" para personas que tienen una enfermedad genética ¡per......more