Biology Is Technology : : The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life / / Robert H. Carlson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Carlson, Robert H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. What Is Biology? --; 2. Building with Biological Parts --; 3. Learning to Fly (or Yeast, Geese, and 747s) --; 4. The Second Coming of Synthetic Biology --; 5. A Future History of Biological Engineering --; 6. The Pace of Change in Biological Technologies --; 7. The International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition --; 8. Reprogramming Cells and Building Genomes --; 9. The Promise and Peril of Biological Technologies --; 10. The Sources of Innovation and the Effects of Existing and Proposed Regulations --; 11. Laying the Foundations for a Bioeconomy --; 12. Of Straitjackets and Springboards for Innovation --; 13. Open-Source Biology, or Open Biology? --; 14. What Makes a Revolution? --; Afterword --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674053625; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674053625
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert H. Carlson.

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.