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        May We Make the World?

        May We Make the World?

        May We Make the World?

        Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature

        by Laurie Zoloth

        ISBN: 9780262546980

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 19, 2023

        An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria.
        The Foundations of Population Genetics

        The Foundations of Population Genetics

        The Foundations of Population Genetics

        by Daniel M. Weinreich

        ISBN: 9780262047579

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 29, 2023

        An accessible but rigorous treatment of the theoretical foundations of population genetics.
        CRISPR People

        CRISPR People

        CRISPR People

        The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

        by Henry T. Greely

        ISBN: 9780262543880

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 1, 2022

        What does the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?
        The Genealogy of a Gene

        The Genealogy of a Gene

        The Genealogy of a Gene

        Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race

        by Myles W. Jackson

        ISBN: 9780262533782

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 24, 2017

        The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.
        Genetic Twists of Fate

        Genetic Twists of Fate

        Genetic Twists of Fate

        by Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston

        ISBN: 9780262518642

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 8, 2013

        How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.
        Genetics and Life Insurance

        Genetics and Life Insurance

        Genetics and Life Insurance

        Medical Underwriting and Social Policy

        Edited by Mark A. Rothstein

        ISBN: 9780262512596

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 23, 2009

        Experts discuss the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of genetic testing in determining eligibility for life insurance.
        Heredity Produced

        Heredity Produced

        Heredity Produced

        At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870

        Edited by Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

        ISBN: 9780262134767

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 16, 2007

        The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.
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