Author
Fumento, Michael.
Title
B I O evolution : how biotechnology is changing our world / Michael Fumento.
Published
San Francisco : Encounter Books, c2003.
Format
Book
Description
ix, 510 p. ; 23 cm.
Link
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy051/2003049372.html
Variant title
BioEvolution
BIO evolution
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-485) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- pt. 1. Miracles in Medicine -- 1. The new biotech paradigm -- 2. Vanquishing vaccines -- 3. Miniature pharmaceutical factories and medicinal milk -- 4. "Plantibodies" -- 5. The book of angiogenesis -- 6. Medicinal matchmaking -- 7. Ingenious gene therapy -- 8. The genomic generation -- 9. Gene testing -- 10.t "Baby by Versace"? -- 11. Will biotech break the bank? -- pt. 2. The fountain of youth -- 1. Turning back the clock -- 2. Starfish for a day -- 3. Stupendous stem cells -- 4. Xenotransplantation --
pt. 3. More (and better) food for a growing population 1. The defeat of hunger -- 2. Safe biopesticides -- 3. Survival of the transgenic -- 4. Foods that taste too good to be healthy -- 5. Developing the underdeveloped nations -- 6. Frankenfoods? -- pt. 4. Biotech brooms : letting nature clean up man’s messes -- 1. Tackling toxic waste -- 2. Phytoremediation and mighty microbes -- Conclusion : A biotech future -- Acknowledgments -- appendix. Biotech companies mentioned -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN
1893554759 (alk. paper)
9781893554757 (alk. paper)
Subject
Biotechnology -- Popular works.
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