Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way ...(展开全部)

作者 詹尼佛·A·杜德娜（JENNIFER A. DOUDNA），博士，加州大学伯克利分校分子与细胞生物学系、化学系教授，霍华德·休斯医学研究所研究员，劳伦斯·伯克利国家实验室分子生物物理学与整合生物成像部研究员。她是RNA与蛋白质生物化学、CRISPR生物学与基因组工程方面的世界级专家，美国科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。现居旧金山湾区。 塞缪尔·H·斯坦伯格（SAMUEL H. STERNBERG），博士，生物化学家，哥伦比亚大学生物化学与分子生物物理学系助理教授，曾发表过多篇关于CRISPR技术的高影响力论文。现居纽约。 译者 傅贺，微生物学博士，现于美国佐治亚大学从事微型生物海洋学与生态学研究。业余译书。 校者 袁端端，前南方周末资深记者，美国汉弗莱访问学者，长期关注医药健康领域。

比尔·奈尔（Bill Nye） 科学家、工程师、喜剧演员兼发明家。曾在康奈尔大学师从卡尔·萨根教授，并获得机械工程专业学士学位；还曾在波音公司工作，作为工程师参与研发波音747客机；随后制作并主持了广受欢迎的电视节目《科学人比尔·奈尔》（Bill Nye the Science Guy），该节目曾获得艾美奖。他拥有理海大学、威拉姆特大学、昆尼皮亚克大学、伦斯勒理工学院、戈切尔学院和约翰－霍普金斯大学6个荣誉博士学位，并定期访问康奈尔大学。 科瑞·S. 鲍威尔（Corey S.Powell） 《美国科学家》和《探索》杂志前任主编，目前是《探索》杂志特约编辑，继续为其撰写专栏文章和博客。他还是纽约大学SHERP科学新闻计划的访问学者，以及《大众科学》《史密森尼》《鹦鹉螺》《万古》等杂志的自由撰稿人，其作品《行星的疯狂》入选《2014年美国科学和自然最佳写...(展开全部)

The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition! "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is...(展开全部)

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."--Bill Nye Sparked by a controversial debate in Februa...(展开全部)

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In his ground-breaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of sta...(展开全部)

How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myt...(展开全部)

Thirty years ago, biologists could get by with a rudimentary grasp of mathematics and modeling. Not so today. In seeking to answer fundamental questions about how biological systems function and change over time, the modern biologist is as likely to rely on sophisticated mathematical and computer-based models as traditional fieldwork. In this book, Sarah Otto and Troy Day provi...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double H...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double H...(展开全部)