BioEvolution : how biotechnology is changing our world / Michael Fumento.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fumento, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology--Popular works.

Biotechnology.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

ix, 510 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2003.

Summary:

"BioEvolution" is the first book to explain what biotech is all about and to describe the amazing scientific advances that have already been made. Fumento shows how biotech is changing lives and will do so even more dramatically in the near future.

Contents:

Part 1 Miracles in Medicine

1 The New Biotech Paradigm 9

2 Vanquishing Vaccines 13

3 Miniature Pharmaceutical Factories and Medicinal Milk 23

4 "Plantibodies" 42

5 The Book of Angiogenesis 59

6 Medicinal Matchmaking 65

7 Ingenious Gene Therapy 75

8 The Genomic Generation 84

9 Gene Testing 100

10 "Baby by Versace"? 108

11 Will Biotech Break the Bank? 115

Part 2 The Fountain of Youth

1 Turning Back the Clock 125

2 Starfish for a Day 150

3 Stupendous Stem Cells 155

4 Xenotransplantation 182

Part 3 More (and Better) Food for a Growing Population

1 The Defeat of Hunger 191

2 Safe Biopesticides 209

3 Survival of the Transgenic 233

4 Foods That Taste Too Good to Be Healthy 246

5 Developing the Underdeveloped Nations 256

6 Frankenfoods? 270

Part 4 Biotech Brooms

Letting Nature Clean up Man's Messes

1 Tackling Toxic Waste 299

2 Phytoremediation and Mighty Microbes 304

Conclusion: A Biotech Future 326.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-485) and index.

ISBN:

1893554759

OCLC:

52231543