Biology is technology : the promise, peril, and new business of engineering life /
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| Author / Creator: | Carlson, Robert H., 1970- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 279 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7931931 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?
