The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology Is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are

"What happens when universal truth comes face-to-face with inexorable progress? Since the advent of life, every creature has been beholden to its genetic blueprint; drawn at conception, it is Article I of an immutable compact with the laws of nature. But mankind has never fully bought into that covenant, and human history is woven out of our perpetual attempts to renegotiate. The latest manifestations of this timeless quest are major developments in DNA science and technology. These quantum leaps have positioned mankind before an almost inconceivable array of opportunities—and with them a daunting vortex of ethical and social issues -- to influence or even determine our individual and collective destinies. The Genomics Age is your guide to this startling new reality, a very near future in which science will empower us to make decisions with profound biological, moral, economic, and societal implications. Gina Smith, an internationally renowned, award-winning journalist whose work has g