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# Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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## Customer Reviews

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    Four Stars
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2017*

Very interesting!

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    ENLIGHTENING, BUT NEGLECTS DANGERS
  

*by Y***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017*

Readers with enough background knowledge for understanding the text will benefit a lot from this concise, up-to-date and well-written survey of contemporary molecular biology with some outlook into expected progress.The subject which struck me most is epigenetics, which deals with the possible inheritance of acquired characteristics, often caused by environmental factors (pp.68 ff.). Defined as “a stable heritable phenotype resulting from changes in a chromosome without alterations in the DNA sequence” (p. 66), epigenetic traits can be caused by factors such as diet. Also, possible is “transmitting some fears between the generations in humans (p. 69).The book, rightly so, does not go into broader implications of epigenetics. But, if proven correct, such effects inject into the theory of evolution some elements of Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics, speeding up select evolutionary processes. Given emerging radical changes in human environments the implications of epigenetic inheritance, if indeed operating on a significant scale, may be profound. But these are speculations beyond the domain of this short introduction. The situation is different in respect to genetic engineering and synthetic biology as a whole, which are rapidly progressing and deserve an Oxford Very Short Introduction of their own. The authors devote to them a few pages which meet requirements  – with one grave omission: Synthetic biology, genetic engineering and related emerging technologies are easily misused for deliberate mass-killings by fanatics. Thus, taking into account that throughout human history there is no killing tool which has not been used, it is very likely that the dangerous potentials of synthesized viruses will be realized and result in mass-killings, unless harsh countermeasures are adopted.This danger is well recognized in the literature on global catastrophic risks and terrorism. But this book devotes to the very serious risks posed by likely misuses of molecular biology only two by-the-way words “deliberate misuse” (p. 133), while the potential medical and other benefits are discussed at relative length.The result is a biased presentation instead of a balanced assessment of benefits and dangers. I regard this as a serious weakness justifying three stars as the maximum deserved by this book.Professor Yehezkel DrorThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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    Five Stars
  

*by D***O on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017*

Good book, thanks.

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