Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.
Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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G 2018/0030
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Language
English
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Physical content
vi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Analysis : synthesis -- Interlude 1: Plastic fantastic -- Life by design : evolution and creation tales in synthetic biology -- Interlude 2: From still life to more intense life -- The synthetic kingdom : transgenic kinship in the postgenomic era -- Interlude 3: To make an eye, a hair,...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as ele...
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Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.
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G 2018/0030
Record Identifier
74VKVGA0l88b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGA0l88b
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ISBN
9780226440323 (cloth ; alk. paper)
022644032X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226440460 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
022644046X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
DDC
660.6509
MMS ID
991024154705902626
