Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...publications and funding, bioethics in the age of CRISPR, and the challenges of science becoming increasingly...rapidly changing world of genome engineering via CRISPR.
Though the individual topics are not surprising...scientific world? Would biohackers even be a thing if CRISPR hadn’t made manipulating the genome cheap and relatively...shocking. Mainstream media outlets have addressed CRISPR frequently over the last several years, but lay...scientists themselves.
The sections on optogenetics and CRISPR of course address some of the ethical implications...easy, fast, and cheap distribution of the newest CRISPR-Cas plasmids, has been a key driver of the technology...own books. Multiple books have been written about CRISPR alone, and Zimmer himself has written entire books...