Life and Its Future | 2021
Manipulated Evolution and Artificial Life
Abstract
Since the 1970s, laboratory methods have been developed in molecular biology that allow for the manipulation of the DNA sequences of genes or the genome of an organism. Expression of proteins in bacteria, genetic modifications of mice and other animals or plants, and the CRISPR/cas9 gene editing technology are described. Finally the possibility of, and ethical issues around, gene editing in humans are discussed.