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Brain in a dish, babies by design: what it means to be human

Natalie Kofler is engrossed by a book that examines what cutting-edge biotechnology means for our sense of self.
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    1. Natalie Kofler is a molecular biologist, the founder of the Editing Nature initiative to steer just and responsible use of gene editing, and is a scholar at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics in New Haven, Connecticut.

How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made Philip Ball William Collins (2019)

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Nature 569, 333-334 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01502-1

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