Manipulating Biology: Costs, Benefits and Controversies

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.05.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Rationale
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Hands-on Activities
  6. Endnotes
  7. Bibliography
  8. Appendix

The Power and Responsibility of Human Changes to Biology: Malaria, Mosquitoes, and CRISPR Technology

Nancy V. Ibarra

Published September 2018

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Endnotes

  1. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
  2. Emily Monosson, Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene, 138
  3. Seminar notes
  4. Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, 61
  5. Seminar notes
  6. Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science
  7. Emily Monosson, Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
  8. Seminar notes
  9. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  10. Wikimedia Commons
  11. Encyclopedia Britannica
  12. CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  13. Ibid
  14. Ibid
  15. World Health Organization: WHO
  16. Wikimedia Commons
  17. Seminar notes
  18. Ibid
  19. Wikimedia Commons
  20. Biologydictionary.net
  21. Wikimedia Commons
  22. CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  23. New York Times, How One Child’s Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria
  24. Genetic Home Reference- NIH
  25. ZME Science, What is CRISPR Gene Editing: Definition, Importance, How it Works
  26. NPR, To Fight Malaria, Scientists Try Genetic Engineering To Wipe Out Mosquitoes
  27. Statnews.com
  28. Fortune.com
  29. Google Dictionary
  30. Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  31. Facing History and Ourselves: Socratic Seminar

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