Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures
'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of Books In 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over…
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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