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100 1  Doudna, Jennifer A.,|eauthor. 
245 12 A crack in creation :|bgene editing and the unthinkable 
       power to control evolution /|cJennifer A. Doudna, Samuel 
       H. Sternberg. 
264  1 Boston :|bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,|c2017. 
300    xx, 281 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-269) and 
       index. 
520    Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its 
       inventors that they warned the world about its use. Not, 
       that is, until the spring of 2015, when biologist Jennifer
       Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the
       new gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new 
       technology that she helped create—to make heritable 
       changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most 
       effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may 
       well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some 
       cancers, and will help address the world’s hunger crisis. 
       Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA could have myriad, 
       unforeseeable consequences—to say nothing of the ethical 
       and societal repercussions of intentionally mutating 
       embryos to create “better” humans. 
650  0 Genetics|xResearch. 
650  0 Genetic code. 
700 1  Sternberg, Samuel H.,|eauthor.