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Author Church, George M. (George McDonald)

Title Regenesis : how synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves / George Church and Ed Regis.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2012]
©2012

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  572.8 CHURCH, GEORGE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  572.86 CHURCH    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  572.86 CHU    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  572.86 CH    Check Shelf
Description ix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From bioplastics to H. sapiens 2.0 -- -3,800 Myr, Late Hadean : at the inorganic/organic interface -- -3,500 Myr, Archean : reading the most ancient texts and the future of living software -- -500 Myr, Cambrian : the mirror world and the explosion of diversity ; How fast can evolution go and how diverse can it be? -- -360 Myr, Carboniferous : "the best substitute for petroleum is petroleum" -- -60 Myr. Paleocene : emergence of mammalian immune system ; Solving the health care crisis through genome engineering -- -30,000 Yr, Pleistocene Park : engineering extinct genomes -- -10,000 Yr, Neolithic : industrial revolutions ; The agricultural revolution and synthetic genomics ; The BioFab Manifesto -- -100 Yr, Anthropocene : the third industrial revolution ; iGEM -- -1 Yr, Holocene : from personal genomes to immortal human components -- Epigenetic epilogue. +1 Yr, the end of the beginning, transhumanism, and the Panspermia Era : societal risks and countermeasures.
Summary A heady overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce, from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected wooly mammoths. In this authoritative, sometimes awe-inspiring book, geneticist Church and veteran science writer Regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes, or genetic makeup.
Subject Synthetic biology.
Genomics -- Social aspects.
Genetics -- Social aspects.
Nature.
Bioengineering.
Added Author Regis, Edward, 1944-
ISBN 9780465021758 hardback
0465021751 hardback
9780465033294 (e-book)
0465033296 (e-book)
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