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Article: Genetic engineering: a post-human age?(Books)(Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age)(Book Review)
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- October 19, 2003
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The news that a horse had been cloned in Italy this past summer received only scant media attention. It seems we've grown use to the idea of scientists replicating mammals in laboratories.
But according to best-selling author Bill McKibben, cloning is just the "warm-up act." The main event for people involved in this work, he says, is germline human genetic engineering. "Not just copying but changing, its we've done with plants and animals," he explains.
In his new book Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, McKibben writes that much of the work on the human genetic puzzle is heading in exciting directions. For example, toward new and better cancer ...