Regenesis
Subtitle: how synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves
By: George M. Church and Ed Regis
Contributors: Regis, Edward, 1944-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780465021758; 9780465033294
Subjects: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General; Genomics; SCIENCE / Biotechnology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics; Genetics; Nature; Social aspects; Synthetic biology; Bioengineering
Description: 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 woolly 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.