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Written by a pioneer and authority, this invaluable book covers all the key aspects and current affairs in the field of biotechnology, with topics ranging from genome projects, through animal and human cloning, to biowarfare. As an academic-turned-entrepreneur, the author is at ease in providing viv...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/4950#t=toc |
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Written by a pioneer and authority, this invaluable book covers all the key aspects and current affairs in the field of biotechnology, with topics ranging from genome projects, through animal and human cloning, to biowarfare. As an academic-turned-entrepreneur, the author is at ease in providing vivid firsthand accounts from both the scientific and the business perspective. This book is addressed primarily to experts and professionals who are very busy but who wish to gain insights through a different and comprehensive perspective of this important field. It is also aimed at laypeople who ar |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxi,417pages) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812777539 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | Q81 |
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ch. 1. The genome project: its impacts and implications. 1. Looking back in the future -- 2. Lewis-Clark De Javu -- 3. The human genome tour -- 4. Historical perspective - the timeline of the human genome project -- 5. A small step for genome, a giant step for humankind -- 6. What is in store? -- 7. The next fifty years -- 8. The test of time -- ch. 2. Post-genomics matters: send out a thousand ships, not catalogue a thousand genes. 1. Genome armada -- 2. Perplexity and enlightenment -- 3. How the statistics stack up? -- 4. Genestimate discrepancies -- 5. Genome - a map to profitability? -- ch. 10. Patentability in biotechnology. 1. Decoding a genetic announcement -- 2. Enclosing the genetic commons -- 3. The final frontier - where no life scientists have gone before -- 4. Biopiracy and biocolonialism -- 5. Just price -- 6. The biotech century -- 7. Who owns what? -- ch. 11. Biological and biology-related information as a commodity and the rise of bioinformatics. 1. The dynamic high tech world -- 2. Types of focused companies -- 3. Biology and biology-related disciplines - place in science -- 4. Pharmaceutical companies as product-driven companies -- 5. The economics of drug di |