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Lee M. Silver

Lee M. Silver

Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Policy at Princeton University. He is the author of several books, including Remaking Eden.
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  • Brave New World Dawning

    Lee M. Silver Series: Science and Society
    2002-08-06
    Since 1978, reproductive biologists have helped couples overcome infertility by using increasingly sophisticated techniques for generating and manipulating human embryos in the laboratory. At the same time, molecular biologists have been working to overcome human disease by deciphering the entire sequence of the human genome and constructing tools to correct genetic and cellular defects. While reproductive and molecular biologists focus on unrelated medical problems - infertility and disease - combining their technologies produces reprogenetics, which will allow us to design ourselves. ... read
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