In 2018, the first genetically-modified children were born.
Now we have the tools to reshape the future of our species.
With a pair of genetic scissors known as CRISPR, we can potentially
select the traits of our children, or avoid ageing, or cure disease. But
with that ability comes a new set of risks, forcing us to face hard
ethical questions.
Torill Kornfeldt has travelled all over the world to meet the people
driving this research forward. She has visited fertility clinics in
South Korea, oncologists in China who are experimenting on sick
patients, and biohackers in the US who want to make the new technology
available to everyone. In The Unnatural Selection of Our Species, she
asks: How are we supposed to handle these new tools that could end up
changing our genetic material?
'Well written, knowledgeable, and engaging - exactly how really good
popular science is supposed to be' Gustav Källstrand, Nobel Centre