An anthropologist investigates the factors shaping modern genetic medicine The Mutant Project provides readers with an intriguing picture of the events, ambitions, and deceptions that led up to the birth of the first gene-edited babies in October 2018, but these insights are only part of what makes it such a fascinating read. At its core, the book is a complex analysis of the global culture in which the project of heritable human genome editing is now developing.

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钱包、病人和个人荣耀

一位人类学家调查影响现代基因医学的因素突变项目为读者提供了导致 2018 年 10 月第一个基因编辑婴儿诞生的事件、野心和欺骗的有趣画面，但这些见解只是其中的一部分是什么让它如此引人入胜。这本书的核心是对全球文化的复杂分析，在该文化中，可遗传的人类基因组编辑项目正在发展中。