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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Robert H., 1970- author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Biotechnology.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

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:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780674053625

OCLC:

671647719

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.