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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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Janine M Benyus
The author takes the reader into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are discovering in nature ingenious solutions to human problems: studying leaves to learn how to make microscopic solar "power packs" that will clean up toxic spills and light our homes; harnessing DNA's coding power to make blindingly fast computers; ...
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
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Mary E Pearson
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she?
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
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Professor Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama revisits his thesis about the end of history by theorizing about the role genetic technologies will play in our future. Seeing designer babies, agism, cloning, and genetic therapies all around him, Fukuyama argues that the integrity of scientific--and by consequence political--human rights depends on the maintenance of human ...
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Introduction to Microbiology: A Case-History Study Approach
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John L Ingraham, Catherine A Ingraham
Would you like to bring guest lectures like researchers, physicians, or fellow instructors into you microbiology course? With this 3rd edition of this text you get the perspective of all three professionals. John Ingraham, a professor of microbiology at University of California at Davis, and Catherine Ingraham, his daughter and a practicing ...
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Introduction to Genetic Engineering
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Desmond S T Nicholl
In this third edition of his popular undergraduate-level textbook, Des Nicholl recognises that a sound grasp of basic principles is vital in any introduction to genetic engineering. Therefore, the book retains its focus on the fundamental principles used in gene manipulation. It is divided into three sections: Part I provides an introduction to ...
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Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
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Peter Pringle
FOOD, INC. examines the ongoing battle between "life science" corporations like Monsanto and environmentalists like Greenpeace. Pringle examines the propaganda war between these two sides, calling for some kind of compromise that he sees as being beneficial to all. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Introduction to Biotechnology
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William Thieman, Michael A Palladino
Introduction to Biotechnology is the first biotechnology textbook geared specifically for the diverse scientific backgrounds of undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in biotechnology. With its balanced coverage of basic molecular biology, historical developments, and contemporary applications, the text provides students with the ...
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Bioinformatics for Dummies
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Jean-Michel Claverie, PH.D., Cedric Notredame, PH.D.
Bioinformatics -- the process of searching biological databases, comparing sequences, examining protein structures, and researching biological questions with a computer -- is one of the marvels of modern technology that can save you months of lab work. And the most amazing part is that, if you know how, you can use highly sophisticated programs ...
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Molecular Biotechnology: Principles & Applications of Recombinant DNA
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Completely revised and updated, the second edition of this very popular textbook covers both the underlying scientific principles and the wide-ranging industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical and biomedical applications of recombinant DNA technology. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the types of organisms and cells used in molecular ...
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Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine
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Buddy D Ratner, Allan S Hoffman (Editor), Frederick J Schoen (Editor)
The second edition of this bestselling title provides the most up-to-date comprehensive review of all aspects of biomaterials science by providing a balanced, insightful approach to learning biomaterials. This reference integrates a historical perspective of materials engineering principles with biological interactions of biomaterials. Also ...
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Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine
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Edward H Shortliffe (Editor), James J Cimino (Editor)
The practice of modern medicine requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and conduct research. This book, inspired by a Stanford University training program developed to introduce health professionals to computer applications in modern ...
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From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology
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Cynthia Robbins-Roth
A fascinating glimpse inside the life-and-death business of biotechnology.. It is impossible to dispute the extraordinary impact biotechnology is having on our everyday lives. From Alchemy to IPO presents the dramatic story of the revolutionary and controversial business of inventing new cures and blockbuster drugs and a look at how biotech ...
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The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA: And Other Masterminds from the Frontiers of Biotech
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David E Duncan
Combining myth, biography, and wit -- a highly original depiction of cutting-edge science -- told through the scientists who are rewriting life on earth While the future of human existence is literally being forged by today's genetic scientists and biotechnology leaders, the media, policymakers, ethicists, and fellow scientists alike have not ...
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Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium
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Ellyn Daugherty
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva shows how Western powers, following in the footsteps of Columbus, are using patenting and genetic engineering to re-colonize the Third World. Denying the value of indigenous knowledge developed over many generations, the West is attempting to colonize life itself. She argues that we must struggle to protect biological and cultural ...
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Recombinant DNA: Genes and Genomes: A Short Course
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James D Watson
This is the authoritative introduction to the concepts and techniques of recombinant DNA research and their dramatic results. The book explores core concepts in molecular biology in a contemporary inquiry-based context, building its coverage around the landmark experiments that redefined our understanding of DNA. As a result, students learn how ...
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The Coming Convergence: Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future
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Stanley Schmidt, Ph.D.
Imagine direct communication links between the human brain and machines, or tailored materials capable of adapting by themselves to changing environmental conditions, or computer chips and environmental sensors embedded into everyday clothing, or medical technologies that eliminate currently untreatable conditions such as blindness and paralysis. ...
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Science Business: The Promise, Reality and Future of Biotech
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Gary P Pisano
Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expectations - despite all its promise? In "Science Business", Gary P. Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not only reveals the underlying causes of biotech's problems; he offers the most sophisticated analysis yet on how the industry ...
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From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice
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Dan W Brock, Norman Daniels, Dan Wikler
This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists, is the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings. Probing the implications of the remarkable advances in genetics, the authors ask how should these affect our understanding of distributive justice, ...
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Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species
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Professor Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Ernst Mayr (Foreword by)
From one of the great iconoclasts of modern biology, a groundbreaking work that sets out, for lay and scientific readers alike, a new theory of the origins of species How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution - the raw source for the origin of new species - he never figured out ...
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BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World
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Michael Fumento
Michael Fumento discusses the miracle drugs and treatment in the pipeline - innovations that will change medicine over the next decades, eliminating diseases such as diabetes.
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
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Marion Nestle
Nestle, the author of FOOD POLITICS: HOW THE FOOD INDUSTRY INFLUENCES NUTRITION AND HEALTH, argues that ensuring that our food supply is safe is not just a matter of clean food processing, delivery, and distribution, but of politics. She describes how the influential food industries oppose safety regulations and deny accountability. She also ...
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Basic Biotechnology
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Colin Ratledge (Editor), Bjorn Kristiansson (Editor)
Biotechnology impinges on everyone's lives. It is one of the major technologies of the twenty-first century. Its huge, wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary activities include recombinant DNA techniques, cloning and genetics, and the application of microbiology to the production of goods as every-day as bread, beer, cheese and antibiotics. It continues ...
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Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications
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Daan J A Crommelin (Editor), Robert D Sindelar (Editor), Bernd Meibohm (Editor)
Completely revised text that reflects to emergent trends and cutting-edge advances in pharmaceutical biotechnology, this Third Edition provides a well-balanced framework for understanding every major aspect of pharmaceutical biotechnology, including drug development, production, dosage forms, administration, and therapeutic developments. New ...
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Intervention
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Robin Cook
"New York Times"-bestselling author Cook returns with another ripped-from-the-headlines medical thriller, where DNA science, biotechnology, and religion collide.
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