If our genes are, to a great extent, destiny, then what would happen if mankind could engineer and alter the very essence of our DNA coding? Millions might be spared the devastating effects of hereditary disease or the challenges of disability. But this power to "play God" also raises major ethical questions and poses threats for potential misuse. For decades, these questions have lived exclusively in the realm of science fiction, but as Davies powerfully...

This book is a collection of articles that I wrote, while four of them I presented to international conferences held by La Sorbonne, Oxford, and Vienna universities, between November 2020 and February 2021. In general, these articles debate how a transformation of our brain occurred in the last 40,000-years and how this change made our brain to develop a language.

Welcome to the dawn of the genetic age: a revolutionary epoch where the very code of life can be edited at will.As humanity stands on the brink of a genetic revolution, "CRISPR Chronicles: Navigating the Ethics, Promises, and Perils of Gene Editing" presents an engaging and comprehensive exploration of the revolutionary CRISPR technology.With this book as your guide, you'll embark on an intriguing journey through the wonders of genetic engineering,...

A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity-genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the...

In "The Gene Revolution: CRISPR and the Future of Humanity," August Raines delves into the transformative world of genetic editing. With a focus on CRISPR/Cas9 technology, the book traces its journey from a bacterial immune mechanism to a groundbreaking tool for editing human DNA. Raines explores the historical fascination with creation, drawing parallels from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to today's genetic advancements. This compelling narrative...

The history of life on Earth is dominated by extinction events so numerous that over 99.9% of the species ever to have existed are gone forever. If animals could talk, we would ask them to recall their own ancestries, in particular the secrets as to how they avoided almost inevitable annihilation in the face of daily assaults by predators, climactic cataclysms, deadly infections and innate diseases. In Tears of the Cheetah, medical geneticist and...

Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know, perhaps all too well, but could never understand. Starting with psychology as a frame of reference, Oakley uses cutting-edge images of the working brain to provide startling support for...

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nick Lane, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and bestselling author. After an inspiring story of Nick Lane's career path, this wide-ranging conversation covers his bioenergetic view of early, evolutionary history, the origin of life and how all complex life is composed of a very particular cell type that we all share, and more. This carefully-edited...

This is a bold, thought-provoking exploration of the gaps in our understanding of the ethical, philosophical, and political ramifications of our genetics and how they are shaped by our environments. Disentangling humans synthesizes life and social sciences, and the humanities, into a philosophical understanding of humans in terms of wellbeing, sociality and ethics. Drawing from the fields of classical genetics, evolutionary biology and sociopsychology,...

La biología sintética se posiciona como uno de los campos más revolucionarios de la ciencia moderna, permitiendo la creación de organismos vivos artificiales en laboratorios. Este libro explora las implicaciones éticas y prácticas de esta tecnología emergente. Desde la historia de su desarrollo hasta los avances más recientes, se cubren todas las áreas fundamentales, incluyendo la medicina personalizada, la agricultura sostenible y la producción...