Biology is Technology:The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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Harvard University Press,
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c2010.
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279 p.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 (iGEM) -- 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 bio-economy -- Of straightjackets and springboards for innovation -- Open source biology, or open biology? -- What makes a revolution?