CRISPR, a geopolitical editing tool in med thriller "Airpocalyse"

Illustration by Florence Cartozo

« In the US science has to be religion-compliant and middle-class is shrinking, whereas in China religion has to be science-compliant and middle-class is expanding. »

Lenoir, a French cardiac surgeon in my upcoming medical thriller Airpocalypse.

Airpocalypse tells the story of U.S. & Chinese efforts to prevent the merger of two silos: well-funded terrorist organization Daesh & organ trafficking in Xinjiang, a Muslim Chinese province. Until now, genomics and geopolitics were two separate silos. Cool gene editing tool CRISPR is a game changer, as it is not only a scientific tool. Also, it is becoming a geopolitics editing tool. 

Author: Catherine Coste

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