Webster University Library Book Club |
Everyone is welcome!
Bring your lunch, and join us at our meetings to chat about the club's latest book selection.
Meetings are held from noon to 1 p.m. every other month in the Library Conference room.
Directions/parking:
- See Getting to the Library for directions
- Park in any visitor or unmarked space in the garage at 568 Garden Avenue and sign in at the Public Safety Office at the entrance to the garage.
- Accessible parking is available in the circle drive in the front of the Library.
Upcoming book discussions:
January 14, 2019
12pm- 1 pm
Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use. That is, until 2015, when biologist Jennifer Doudna called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR—a revolutionary new technology that she helped create—to make heritable changes in human embryos. The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers. Yet even the tiniest changes to DNA could have myriad, unforeseeable consequences—to say nothing of the ethical and societal repercussions of intentionally mutating embryos to create “better” humans.
Writing with fellow researcher Sam Sternberg, Doudna shares the thrilling story of her discovery and describes the enormous responsibility that comes with the power to rewrite the code of life.
Description courtesy of https://hmhbooks.com/shop/books/A-Crack-in-Creation/9781328915368