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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

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By (author): Amy Webb Andrew Hessel

Synthetic biology will revolutionize how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. This fast-growing field-which uses computers to modify or rewrite genetic code-has created revolutionary, groundbreaking solutions such as the mRNA COVID vaccines, IVF, and lab-grown hamburger that tastes like the real thing. It gives us options to deal with existential threats: climate change, food insecurity, and access to fuel.

But there are significant risks.

Who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? What cyber-biological risks are looming? Could a future biological war, using engineered organisms, cause a mass extinction event?

Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon. See more
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  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 162 x 243mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: PublicAffairsU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781541797918

About Amy WebbAndrew Hessel

Amy Webb is the founder of the Future Today Institute a leading foresight and strategy firm that advises CEOs of the world's most-admired companies three-star admirals and generals and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations. She is a professor of strategic foresight at New York University's Stern School of Business and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Said School of Business. She was elected a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and serves as a Steward and Steering Committee member of the World Economic Forum. Amy was named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world and was honored as one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2020. Amy is author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity and The Signals are Talking: Why Today's Fringe is Tomorrow's Mainstream. She resides in Baltimore MD.Andrew Hessel a pioneer and an expert in the field of synthetic biology is the president of Humane Genomics an early-stage company developing synthetic viruses for canine and human oncology. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology and the Genome Project the international scientific effort to engineer large genomes including the human genome. He is a former distinguished research scientist at Autodesk Life Sciences.

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