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The Next 500 Years

Autor Christopher E. Mason
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2022
"Driven by a vision of colonizing other planets, Mason reveals unique insights into how the human body is altered during long-duration spaceflight & how genetic engineering can protect cells in space"--
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ISBN-13: 9780262543842
ISBN-10: 0262543842
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 16 color illustrations, 24 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 145 x 223 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: The MIT Press

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INTRODUCTION: THE EMBRYOGENESIS OF HUMANITY xi
1 THE FIRST GENETIC ASTRONAUTS 1
2 THE DUTY TO ENGINEER 15
3 PHASE 1: THE LANDSCAPE OF FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
(2010-2020) 27
4 PHASE 2: PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING OF GENOMES
(2021-2040) 47
5 PHASE 3: LONG-TERM TRIALS OF HUMAN AND CELLULAR
ENGINEERING (2041-2100) 97
6 PHASE 4: PREPARING HUMANS FOR SPACE (2101-2150) 115
7 PHASE 5: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FOR NEW HOMES
(2151-2200) 133
8 PHASE 6: EXPANDING THE LIMITS OF LIFE (2201-2250) 155
9 PHASE 7: TEST A GENERATION SHIP AND SETTLE HARSH
WORLDS (2251-2350) 169
10 PHASE 8: SETTLE NEW EARTHS (2351-2400) 191
11 PHASE 9: LAUNCH TOWARD THE SECOND SUN (2401-2500) 213
12 PHASE 10: OPTIMISTIC UNKNOWNS (BEYOND 2500) 247
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 255
REFERENCES 259
INDEX 267

Notă biografică

Christopher E. Mason is a geneticist and computational biologist who has been a Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of 11 NASA missions and projects. He is Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with affiliate appointments at the Meyer Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School.