The Hope, Hype & Reality of Genetic Engineering: Remarkable Stories from Agriculture, Industry, Medicine, and the Environment

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Oxford University Press, 2004 - 242 páginas
If you want to know more about the transgenic items on your dinner table, how barnyard animals are being cloned for pharmaceuticals and foods, how wild creatures from mosquitoes to endangered species are being genetically modified, or what genetic engineering holds for the future of medicine and the human species, you need to read this book."--Jacket.
 

Índice

1 A Tale of Good and a Tale of Evil
3
2 Framework of an Unfolding Revolution
9
3 Engineering Microbes
16
4 Getting Creative with Crops
30
5 Genetic Engineering in the Barnyard
77
6 Fields Forests and Streams
103
7 Genetic Tinkering with Humans
148
Epilogue
175
Tools and Workshops of Genetic Engineering
179
Glossary
201
References and Further Reading
211
Index
237
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John C. Avise is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Irvine, and an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In twelve previous books and more than 280 scientific articles, he has helped to popularize as well as pioneer molecular genetic approaches in ecology, natural history, and evolution. He has received national and international awards for career-long contributions to ornithology, molecular ecology, biogeography, marine biology, and wildlife conservation.

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