21st Century Citizen Perspectives on Today's Issues - Genetic Engineering

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Genetic engineering means altering genes in living things, in or to make them look or behave differently. This technology can already be used to change a baby's genes before it is born, to develop pest-resistant crops, and to create bacteria that produce medicine. In this book, Paul Dowswell discusses these developments and the many questions they raise. Will genetic engineering have harmful, as yet unimagined consequences? Should scientists be 'tampering with nature'? And how can this technology be used to benefit the global community?