As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age is precisely what its title claims it to be. Biologist Matthew Cobb (The Idea of the Brain) has examined both the potential and dangers of genetic ...

Matthew Cobb’s “As Gods” questions the ethical — and financial — implications of genetic engineering. By Deborah Blum When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

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The intricate Byzantine mosaics that decorate the eastern apse of the hilltop Cathedral of San Giusto in Trieste, Italy, depict two lithe archangels, Gabriel and Michael. The long, curved, feathery ...

As Gods. By Matthew Cobb. Basic Books; 464 pages; $35. Published in Britain as “The Genetic Age” ; Profile Books; £25 In 2018 He Jiankui, a Chinese biologist, made headlines around the world when he ...

FOR more than 50 years, biologists have been genetically engineering organisms in increasingly precise ways. From the early, crude methods of the 1960s and 1970s, to the modern “gene editing” ...