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Natalie de Souza

Natalie de Souza teaches at the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. (February 2024)

Editing Humanity’s Future

Editing Humanity’s Future

With CRISPR, our species can turn its inexorable will to control nature back onto itself. Eventually, we could guide human evolution. Does this mean that we should?

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

by Jamie Metzl

Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

by Françoise Baylis

April 29, 2021 issue

Letter

Stuart A. Newman

The Risks of Gene Editing

June 10, 2021 issue

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