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POSTED: JANUARY 19, 2017

Flowers for Algernon and CRISPR Technology: Arguing an Unsettling Connection

In the 1960s, in the science fiction short story and subsequent novel Flowers for Algernon, later made into the Academy Award–winning movie Charlie, author Daniel Keyes describes a medical experiment gone bad.
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Provocative Perspectives in Oncology Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

Flowers for Algernon and CRISPR Technology: Arguing an Unsettling Connection

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