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Regenesis : How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves /
?Bold and provocative? Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the return of long-extinct species."?New ScientistIn Regenesis, Harvard biologist George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities?and p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: From Bioplastics to H. Sapiens 2.0 ; 1.-3,800 MYR, LATE HADEAN: At the Inorganic/Organic Interface; 2.-3,500 MYR, ARCHEAN: Reading the Most Ancient Texts and the Future of Living Software; 3.-500 MYR, CAMBRIAN: The Mirror World and the Explosion of Diversity. How Fast Can Evolution Go and How Diverse Can It Be? ; 4.-360 MYR, CARBONIFEROUS: ""The Best Substitute for Petroleum Is Petroleum"" ; 5.-60 MYR, PALEOCENE: Emergence of Mammalian Immune System. Solving the Heath Care Crisis Through Genome Engineering
- 6.-30,000 YR, PLEISTOCENE PARK: Engineering Extinct Genomes7.-10,000 YR, NEOLITHIC: Industrial Revolutions. The Agricultural Revolution and Synthetic Genomics. The BioFab Manifesto; 8.-100 YR, ANTHROPOCENE: THe Third Industrial Revolution. iGEM; 9.-1 YR, HOLOCENE: From Personal Genomes to Immortal Human Components; Epigenetic Epilogue: +1 YR, THE END OF THE BEGINNING, TRANSHUMANISM, AND THE PANSPERMIA ERA: Societal Risks and Countermeasures; Afterword ; Acknowledgments; Selected References ; Illustrations Sources