Biology Is Technology : : The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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