Church, George M. (George McDonald)

Summary: A heady overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce, from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected wooly mammoths. In this authoritative, sometimes awe-inspiring book, geneticist Church and veteran science writer Regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes, or genetic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 CHU

Greene, Harry W.

Summary: "Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolutionof Mystery in Nature delves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. More than a memoir, the book...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of California Pr 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 GRE