Summary: "In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offer organ transplants-- for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession-- and hunted by the Repo man!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.5233 CHA

Hornsby, Daniel

Summary: "Bad Blood meets Succession in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup that promises nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises. Chuck Gross would like nothing more than to prune himself...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012

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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...

Format: text

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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.7 VAR

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...

Format: text

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

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