Biology is technology : the promise, peril, and new business of engineering life / Robert H. Carlson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Robert H., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology.

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-266) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780674053625

0674053621

OCLC:

671647719