Biotechnology from A to Z
Third Edition
William Bains
Price: £37.50 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852498-4
Publication date: 20 November 2003
424 pages, numerous line figures, 234x156 mm
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| Description | | - Ideas illustrated with practical examples throughout
- Comprehensive list of terms
- Comprehensive index
- Straightforward language used throughout
| New to this edition- Text: about 40% (about 30% really new, and another 10% significantly re-written)
Illustrations: about 50% (actually, ALL have been redrawn, but 50% essentially the same as before)
| | This book provides a clear, practical and illuminating guide to the ideas and terminology of Biotechnology. Biotechnology is one of the fastest growing, most exciting, and most controversial areas of science and technology in the 21st Century, an industry worth billions and a political topic that has shaken governments. It has already produced scientific achievements, from cloning to sequencing
the genome, which would have seemed miraculous 20 years ago, and an industry with thousands of companies spanning the world. But this is based on a set of scientific disciplines with their own jargon, ideas and limitations. This book describes those ideas and terms, and what they really mean for science, industry and society. In 300 entries from ADEPT through cloning, genomes, patents, and viruses
to zoonosis, A to Z provides over 300 concise entries describing what the science is, what it does, and the reality of how it has been used, and could be applied. It can be read cover to cover, or dipped into for a quick understanding of a topic. |
Readership: 1) Non-science professional advisors (consultants, investors, PR people) working in biotechnology - This is a rapid, easy reference material - do not need to read a text-book to get an answer about what something is, what has been achieved, and what its relevance to science, industry and society is.
2) Journalists - as above
3) Students - as above
| Authors, editors,
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William Bains, Freelance science writer
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