Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
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Sounds About Right: Audiobooks to Help Us Understand the World
#31: The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life by Matthew Cobb
Matthew Cobb is a is professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester.
His latest book is The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Some of the topics we discussed includes:
- What were his worries of genetic engineering (GE) that led him to writing the book?
- The business of GE and what the influx of money changed.
- Why was the year 1980 pivotal for GE?
- How did GE change cultural agriculture?
- What is CRISPR?
- Why must the dreams and nightmares of GE go hand in hand?
The Book and Audiobook: The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life is out now.
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