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Synthetic : how life got made /
In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture: viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In 'Synthetic' cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (217-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226440637 022644063X |