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Regenesis [electronic resource] : how synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves / George Church & Ed Regis

Author
Church, George M. (George McDonald)
Published
New York : Basic Books, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Regis, Edward, 1944- and Ebooks Corporation
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Contents
From bioplastics to H. sapiens 2.0 -- -3,800 Myr, Late Hadean : at the inorganic/organic interface -- -3,500 Myr, Archean : reading the most ancient texts and the future of living software -- -500 Myr, Cambrian : the mirror world and the explosion of diversity ; How fast can evolution go and how diverse can it be? -- -360 Myr, Carboniferous : "the best substitute for petroleum is petroleum" -- -60 Myr. Paleocene : emergence of mammalian immune system ; Solving the health care crisis through genome engineering -- -30,000 Yr, Pleistocene Park : engineering extinct genomes -- -10,000 Yr, Neolithic : industrial revolutions ; The agricultural revolution and synthetic genomics ; The BioFab Manifesto -- -100 Yr, Anthropocene : the third industrial revolution ; iGEM -- -1 Yr, Holocene : from personal genomes to immortal human components -- Epigenetic epilogue. +1 Yr, the end of the beginning, transhumanism, and the Panspermia Era : societal risks and countermeasures.
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ISBN
0465033296 (electronic bk.)
9780465033294 (electronic bk.)
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Description based on print version record.
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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