Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee M. Silver


Posted by HCFadmin ® , Sat, Jan 13, 2001, 14:44:30 Post Reply   Forum
Lee Silver is a professor at Princeton University. He is always being quoted in the press about human cloning. Silver says that human cloning will happen, it's only a matter of time. This nonfiction book starts out with some astonishing futuristic scenarios in chapter one. Then things got a little bit boring for me in chapters two and three where Silver tries to define life and gets into the abortion debate, but then the book picks up and really excels when it gets back to cloning and reproduction. One of the interesting things he points out is the older women at risk for trisomy 21 (downs syndrome) could avoid that risk with a clone baby. Lee Silver sees a future in which we clone humans and we genetically engineer them. He shares a lot about the technology that is going to make it all happen. Silver really knows the material. He appeared on the McLaughlin Group on 8/28/98 and represented himself very well as the show discussed the future of biotechnology. On the back cover, David Baltimore, a nobel prize winner, says "Remaking Eden is the most important book about modern biology that I have seen recently..." image
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