Biology is technology : the promise, peril, and new business of engineering life /
In Biology Is Technology, author Robert Carlson offers a uniquely informed perspective on the endeavors that contribute to current progress in the science of biological systems and the technology used to manipulate them.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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 straightjackets and springboards for innovation
- Open-source biology, or open biology?
- What makes a revolution?