Genome Ascendancy

Genetic engineering is increasingly changing what medicine and biotechnology can accomplish, raising questions about how far humanity might deliberately alter its biological inheritance. The Genome Ascendancy examines technologies for modifying human biology, beginning with genetics and molecular biology before exploring gene editing, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, and emerging forms of enhancement. Drawing on genomics, biotechnology, medicine, neuroscience, ethics, and technology policy, the book considers possibilities for treating disease, extending capability, and potentially moving beyond biological limitations. Readers encounter both scientific opportunities and difficult questions concerning safety, equity, consent, identity, and the meaning of enhancement. Readers gain a structured framework for understanding the subject and its broader consequences for future study, across science, society, technology, policy, and informed future practice today.