Overview
- Gives insight into the methods of genetic engineering from reading to editing the genome
- Explains the risks and opportunities of genetic surgery
- Illuminates the responsibility of humanity as well as moral aspects in dealing with genetic engineering
Part of the book series: essentials (ESSENT)
Part of the book sub series: Springer essentials (SE)
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About this book
This essential should serve as an introduction for a contemporary public discussion on genetic engineering. Genetic engineering affects us all in many areas and we must dare to think more colorful and further. In fact, the complete genetic material of viruses and bacteria can already be chemically produced and "brought to life". With genetic surgery, medicine is at a crossroads: do we want to treat hereditary diseases or "repair" them genetically? And the analysis of thousands of human genetic material reveals information that is related to complex diseases, but also to characteristics such as intelligence. How should we use this knowledge? The question is hardly whether we want genetic engineering, but rather how we use it.
This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Gentechnik by Röbbe Wünschiers, published by The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
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About the author
Röbbe Wünschiers holds a doctorate in plant physiology and a habilitation in genetics. He researches and teaches as professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genetic Engineering
Book Subtitle: Reading, Writing and Editing Genes
Authors: Röbbe Wünschiers
Series Title: essentials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32403-2
Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-32402-5Published: 06 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-32403-2Published: 05 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2197-6708
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 41
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Zoology, Biotechnology, Genetics and Genomics, Human Genetics