53. K. Davies and G. Church, “Radical Technology Meets Radical Application: An interview with George Church,” CRISPR Journal 2, (2019): 346–351, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/crispr.2019.29074.gch.
54. Gulzaar Barn, “Don’t genetically enhance people—improve society instead,” Economist, April 30, 2019, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/04/30/dont-genetically-enhance-people-improve-society-instead.
55. C. Lippert et al., “Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole-genome sequencing data,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, (2017): 10166–10171, https://www.pnas.org/content/114/38/10166.
56. Y. Erlich, “Major flaws in ‘Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole -genome sequencing data,’ ” bioRxiv, September 7, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1101/18533.
57. Editorial, “Genome editing: proceed with caution,” Lancet 392, (2019): 253, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31653-2/fulltext.
58. George Will, “The real Down syndrome problem: Accepting genocide,” Washington Post, March 14, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whats-the-real-down-syndrome-problem-the-genocide/2018/03/14/3c4f8ab8-26ee-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html.
59. Rebecca Cokley, “Please don’t edit me out,” Washington Post, August 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-we-start-editing-genes-people-like-me-might-not-exist/2017/08/10/e9adf206-7d27-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html.
60. Ethan J. Weiss, “Billy Idol,” Project Muse, vol. 63, Winter 2020, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/748051.
61. John Harris, The Value of Life (Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge, 1985).
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Chapter 24: Bases Loaded
1. Tim Hunt, Keystone Symposium, Banff, Canada, February 9, 2020.
2. R. C. Wilson and D. Carroll, “The Daunting Economics of Therapeutic Genome Editing,” CRISPR Journal 2, (2019): 280–284, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/crispr.2019.0052.
3. Kevin Davies, “NIH Director Backs Moratorium for Heritable Genome Editing,” Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, November 8, 2019, https://www.genengnews.com/topics/genome-editing/nih-director-backs-moratorium-for-heritable-genome-editing/.
4. Sharon Begley, “As calls mount to ban embryo editing with CRISPR, families hit by inherited diseases say, not so fast,” STAT, April 17, 2019, https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/17/crispr-embryo-editing-ban-opposed-by-families-carrying-inherited-diseases/.
5. Gina Kolata, “Scientists Designed a Drug for Just One Patient. Her Name Is Mila,” New York Times, October 9, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/health/mila-makovec-drug.html.
6. Erika Check Hayden, “If DNA is like software, can we just fix the code?,” MIT Technology Review, February 26, 2020, https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/26/905713/dna-is-like-software-fix-the-code-personalized-medicine/.
7. Fyodor Urnov, Keystone Symposium, Banff, Canada, February 9, 2020.
8. Ed Yong, “How the Pandemic Will End,” Atlantic, March 25, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/.
9. Megan Molteni and Gregory Barber, “How a Crispr Lab Became a Pop-Up Covid Testing Center,” WIRED, April 2, 2020, https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-lab-turned-pop-up-covid-testing-center/.
10. Matthew Herper, “CRISPR pioneer Doudna opens lab to run Covid-19 tests,” STAT, March 30, 2020, https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/30/crispr-pioneer-doudna-opens-lab-to-run-covid-19-tests/.
11. Megan Molteni and Gregory Barber, “How a Crispr Lab Became a Pop-Up Covid Testing Center,” WIRED, April 2, 2020, https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-lab-turned-pop-up-covid-testing-center/
12. “First rounders: Feng Zhang,” Nature Biotechnology, podcast audio, October 1, 2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0918-784.
13. J. Achenbach and L. McGinley, “FDA gives emergency authorization for CRISPR-based diagnostic tool for coronavirus,” Washington Post, May 7, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/fda-gives-emergency-authorization-for-crispr-based-diagnostic-tool-for-coronavirus/2020/05/07/f98029bc-9082-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html.
14. Carl Zimmer, “With Crispr, a Possible Quick Test for the Coronavirus,” New York Times, May 5, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/health/crispr-coronavirus-covid-test.html.
15. Darrell Etherington, “Pinterest CEO and a team of leading scientists launch a self-reporting COVID-19 tracking app,” TechCrunch, April 2, 2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/02/pinterest-ceo-and-a-team-of-leading-scientists-launch-a-self-reporting-covid-19-tracking-app/.
16. Rob Copeland, “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for Covid-19,” Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2020, https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/scientists-and-billionaires-drive-manhattan-project-seeking-to-combat-covid-19.