Natalie de Souza | The New York Review of Books

The Dark Tangle of Alzheimer’s

Recent breakthroughs in dementia treatments have been hailed as successes, but after decades of disappointing research it is difficult to be optimistic.

How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer’s

by Karl Herrup

February 22, 2024 issue

The Risks of Gene Editing

June 10, 2021 issue

Editing Humanity’s Future

With CRISPR, our species can turn its inexorable will to control nature back onto itself. Eventually, we could guide human evolution. Does this mean that we should?

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

by Jamie Metzl

Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

by Françoise Baylis

April 29, 2021 issue

Letter

Stuart A. Newman

The Risks of Gene Editing