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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert H Carlson |
| ISBN: | 9780674035447 0674035445 9780674060159 0674060156 |
| OCLC Number: | 318875567 |
| Description: | [vii], 279 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | What is biology? -- Building with biological parts -- Learning to fly (or yeast, geese, and 747s) -- The second coming of synthetic biology -- A future history of biological engineering -- The pace of change in biological technologies -- The international genetically engineered machines competition -- Reprogramming cells and building genomes -- The promise and peril of biological technologies -- The sources of innovation and the effects of existing and proposed regulations -- Laying the foundations for a bioeconomy -- Of straitjackets and springboards for innovation -- Open-source biology, or open biology? -- What makes a revolution? |
| Responsibility: | Robert H. Carlson. |
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| Local System Bib Number: | ocn318875567 |
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In this new book, bioengineer Robert H. Carlson forecasts the rise of the cell and the subsequent emergence of biological techniques for making fuels, synthetic DNA that builds new organisms, and reverse-engineered viruses for making vaccines. Biologists, Carlson says, are the new engineers, and the future is in remodeling life as we know it. Wired 20100301 [Carlson] presents an informative view of the future prospects for biotechnology and its regulation. -- Michael A. Goldman Nature 20100422 Biology Is Technology is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the current state of biotechnology and the opportunities and dangers it may create. -- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang American Scientist 20101101 A thoughtful attempt to put what we think we know about biotechnology into a larger context, by a physicist-turned-bioentrepreneur. The Economist 20101204 Read more...
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