authors:
- Church, George
- Regis, Ed
content: Interesting and though-provoking. However, the book is marred by the fact
  that one of its main themes is actually rather silly. Church proposes creating life
  that is based on the mirror-images of the common enantiomers of the biological building
  blocks. He glosses over the fact that this would entail having to recreate an entire
  ecology of mirror-image organisms to sustain it. And the purported benefits are
  in no way commensurate with that colossal task.
date: '2016-02-09'
edition:
  published: '2012'
  publisher: Basic Books
goodreads: '13587129'
html: '<p>Interesting and though-provoking. However, the book is marred by the fact
  that one of its main themes is actually rather silly. Church proposes creating life
  that is based on the mirror-images of the common enantiomers of the biological building
  blocks. He glosses over the fact that this would entail having to recreate an entire
  ecology of mirror-image organisms to sustain it. And the purported benefits are
  in no way commensurate with that colossal task.</p>

  '
isbn: '9780465021758'
language: en
lastmod: '2016-02-09'
path: /library/church-2012.html
published: '2012'
rating: 2
reference: Church 2012
reviewed: '2016-02-09'
subjects:
- biomedicine
- dna-of-the-future
- evolution
- science
title: 'Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves'
type: book
year: 2012