Charles, Daniel.

Summary: "The food we eat is being transformed before our eyes. Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers--from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven tampering with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001

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Vardi, Nathan

Summary: "For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how the core team-denied their share of the profits-went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and science, veteran financial journalist Nathan Vardi explains how the invention of two of the biggest cancer drugs in history became (for their backers) two of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Matthews, Jeanne.

Summary: Anthropologist Dinah Pelerin travels from Hawaii to Norway, where she unexpectedly finds herself learning about the politics of genetic engineering and the Doomsday Seed Vault, involved in the marital troubles of and American presidential candidate and his Norwegian-born wife, and trying to figure out why a dead body fell out of a hotel sauna into her arms.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012

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Schapiro, Mark

Summary: "Ten thousand years after humans figured out how to stop wandering and plant crops, veteran investigative journalist Mark Schapiro plunges into the struggle already underway for control of seeds, the ground-zero ingredient for our food. Three quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 had become extinct by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance, Schapiro takes us onto the frontlines of a struggle...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hot Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 2018

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Keefe, Patrick Radden

Summary: Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KEE