Regenesis : how synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves
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- ISBN: 9780465021758 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0465021751 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
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ix, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Synthetic biology Genomics -- Social aspects Genetics -- Social aspects Nature Bioengineering |
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Prince Rupert Library | 572.86 Chur (Text) | 33294001847938 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |