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...will help us engage in a sensible and productive discussion to decide collectively the role genetic technologies should play in our future. (The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2004) Academic, hospital, and corporate health sciences libraries would welcome this title as an asset to their collections. (E-STREAMS, July 2004) ...an essential and accessible guide to these important subjects. Dr. Gordon and John-Wiley Corporation jointly deserve a pat in the back for producing a beneficial and 'eye-opening' book. (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, August 2004) ?...elucidates the background of genetic manipulation for the layman...recommended...? (Choice, Vol. 41, No. 8, April 2004) ?...this book succeeds in demystifying many of the issues surrounding germline genetic manipulations...? (Science Books & Films, April 2004) This powerful ethical message, combined with Gordon's scientific acumen, make for a simultaneously accessible and thoughtful book. (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, July 2003)

...will help us engage in a sensible and productive discussion to decide collectively the role genetic technologies should play in our future. (The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2004) Academic, hospital, and corporate health sciences libraries would welcome this title as an asset to their collections. (E-STREAMS, July 2004) ...an essential and accessible guide to these important subjects. Dr. Gordon and John-Wiley Corporation jointly deserve a pat in the back for producing a beneficial and 'eye-opening' book. (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, August 2004) ...elucidates the background of genetic manipulation for the layman...recommended... (Choice, Vol. 41, No. 8, April 2004) ...this book succeeds in demystifying many of the issues surrounding germline genetic manipulations... (Science Books & Films, April 2004) This powerful ethical message, combined with Gordon's scientific acumen, make for a simultaneously accessible and thoughtful book. (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, July 2003)

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"Dr. Gordon graduated from Columbia University with a major in Biology in 1971.  He obtained a Ph.D. Yale University in 1978, receiving an award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Biology that year. In 1980 Dr. Gordon graduated with honors from Yale University Medical School. In the two years following medical school Dr. Gordon, in collaboration with Frank H. Ruddle at Yale University, produced the first ""transgenic"" mouse, a mouse with genes from another species inserted into the germ line.  Since then he has pioneered new techniques for assisting fertilization in human in vitro fertilization and has published many research papers, reviews and opinion papers on the science and ethics of gene transfer and related reproductive technologies. He is an internationally recognized authority in the area of germ line gene transfer."

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