The gene machine
Subtitle: how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have
By: Bonnie Rochman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780374160784
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering; Medical genetics; Human genetics
Description: "A researched exploration of the promises and vulnerabilities of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions considers key scientific, technological and political factors while sharing the stories of men and women struggling to understand the range of the tests and their revelations,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: How the Jews beat Tay-Sachs (carrier screening); title: Rewriting a family's history of cancer (preimplantation diagnosis); title: The other scarlet A (abortion); title: Silencing a gene (the future of Down syndrome); title: What do parents want to know? (variants of unknown significance); title: Do you have a right to an open future? (return of results); title: How to hunt a zebra (rare disease); title: The genie in the bottle (universal sequencing).