Books like Biotechnology unzipped by Eric S. Grace

A comprehensive guide to molecular biology, written in clear and concise language for easy comprehension.

"Completely revised and updated, the second edition of the best-selling Molecular Biotechnology: Principles and Applications of Recombinant DNA covers both the underlying scientific principles and the wide-ranging industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications of recombinant DNA technology." "Ideally suited as a text, this book is also an excellent reference for health professionals, scientists, engineers, or attorneys interested in biotechnology."--BOOK JACKET.

"Award-winning scientific journalist Gina Kolata ... reveals the story behind Dolly--reaching back to our earliest attempts to clone, uncovering the startling, largely unreported events that led to Dolly's birth, and exploring the mind-boggling questions that Dolly presents for our future." - book jacket

Francis Fukuyama examines how advances in genetics and biotechnology may reshape the foundations of liberal democracy and the notion of human equality.

"Internationally renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva argues that genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are "the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature ... life itself is being colonized." The resistance to this biopiracy--the use of intellectual property systems to legitimize the exclusive ownership and control over biological resource and biological products and processes that have been used over centuries in non-industrialized cultures--is the struggle to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, Northern capital is now looking for new colonies to exploit and invade for further accumulation--in Shiva's view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Biopiracy is a learned, clear, and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes and traditional forms of knowledge."-- "A learned, clear, and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes and traditional forms of knowledge"--Provided by publisher"--