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100 _a Hwa A Lim
245 _aGenetically Yours: Bioinforming, Biopharming, and Biofarming
260 _aNew Jersey
_b World Scientific
_c2002
300 _a xxi, 417 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 24 cm
505 _aCh. 1. The Genome Project: its impacts and implications -- ch. 2. Post-genomic matters: send out a thousand ships, not catalogue a thousand genes -- ch. 3. Agbiotechnology: genetically modified -- ch. 4. Aqua biotechnology -- ch. 5. Clonology and clonetechnology -- ch. 6. Pet cloning and biofactory -- ch. 7. Human cloning and stem cell research -- ch. 8. Genomic and protemic technologies and beyond -- ch. 9. Submicron technology and nanotechnology -- ch. 10. Patentability in biotechnology -- ch. 11. Biological and biology-related information as a commodity and the rise of bioinformatics -- ch. 12. Turbo-charging bioinformation for drug discovery -- ch. 13. A new kind of war: biowarfare and info warfare -- ch. 14. Two decades of biotechnology and a decade of bioinformatics.
520 _aThis study covers key aspects in the field of biotechnology, with topics such as genome projects, animal and human cloning, and biowarfare. The author presents firsthand accounts from both the scientific and the business perspective. Each chapter is self-contained and there are footnotes
650 _a Genetic engineering. Biotechnology. Human genome.
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