Biotechnology for beginners / Reinhard Renneberg ; edited by Arnold L. Demain with a foreword by Tom A. Rapoport.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berlin ; Boston : Springer-Verlag, c2008.Description: xix, 360 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780123735812
- 0123735815
- 660.6 22
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Includes index.
Beer, Bread, and Cheese: Tasty Biotech -- Enzymes: Molecular Supercatalysts for Home and Industry -- The Miracles of Genetic Engineering -- White Biotechnology: Cells as Synthesis Factories -- Viruses, Antibodies, Vaccinations -- Environmental Biotechnology: Roundabouts Instead of One-Way Streets! -- Green Biotechnology Embryos, Clones, Transgenic Animals -- Heart Attack, Cancer, Stem Cells: Red Biotechnology Saving Life -- Analytic Biotechnology and the Human Genome.
Biotechnology is the applied science of using living organisms and their by-products for commercial development. It has grown and evolved to such an extent over the past few years that increasing numbers of professionals work in areas directly impacted by it. for the first time, this book offers an exciting and colorful overview of biotechnology for professionals and students in a wide array of the life sciences including: Genetics, Immunology, Biochemistry, Agronomy, Food Science, and Animal Science.
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