"The main development in DNA technology since publication of the Seventh Edition of Gene Cloning has been the increased use of gene editing as a tool in both research and biotechnology. The basic methodology for CRISPR editing is now described in Chapter 12 and the applications of the method are explored, in the context of plant genetic engineering, in Chapter 16. Elsewhere, the continuing evolution of next-generation DNA sequencing is reflected by a reorganization of this part of Chapter 10, and to deal with the further proliferation of methods for studying transcriptomes and proteomes (albeit not strictly DNA Analysis) I have created a new chapter devoted to these methods. Other additions include new sections on melt curve analysis of real-time PCR products and genetic typing of human disease mutations"--

"In a dystopic future of unregulated gene editing, a woman named Emily wakes up on the wrong side of the universe as an octopus thanks to rogue 'designer genes' run amok. One of thousands of clones generated from a genetic code sequenced from a lock of hair saved from the original Emily Dickinson, the ersatz Emily resembles an octopus but harbors the soul of a human poet and navigates her life in a lagoon as a bumbling 'rogue soul' enamored of black spice cake, botanical monographs, and gingerbread recipes, while romanced by personified moonlight. In this near-future setting, geneticists ('stardust editors') have reverse-engineered an enzyme ('molecular scissors') from the octopus genome, and zygotes are gene-edited in flesh factories. Despite the advances made possible by this enzyme, the new technology causes some gene-edited subjects to exhibit the antisocial behaviors of octopuses in the wilderness. Bioexiled to live in a secret cosmic lagoon known as the octopodes, Emily receives

He was the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy, the consummate killing machine, a man known only as the Widowmaker. Now, after a century of being cryogenically frozen, Jefferson Nighthawk has a new lease on life--and new enemies who want him dead ...