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Biology is technology : the promise, peril, and new business of engineering life / Robert H. Carlson.
LIBRA TP248.2 .C37 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlson, Robert H., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biotechnology.
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Bioethics.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674035447
- 0674035445
- OCLC:
- 318875567
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