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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Analysis : synthesis
- Interlude 1: Plastic fantastic
- Life by design : evolution and creation tales in synthetic biology
- Interlude 2: From still life to more intense life
- The synthetic kingdom : transgenic kinship in the postgenomic era
- Interlude 3: To make an eye, a hair, a leaf
- The rebirth of the author : new life in legal and economic circuits
- Interlude 4: Much more than human
- Biotechnical agnosticism : fragmented life and labor among the machines
- Interlude 5: What comes before
- Life makes itself at home : the rise of biohacking as political action
- Interlude 6: Life embryonic and prophetic
- Latter-day Lazarus : biological salvage and species revival
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: A note on method.