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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	September 2006
Genre:	Naturwissensch., Medizin, Technik
ISBN:	9780309096218
EAN-Code:	9780309096218
Verlag:	National Academies Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 228 mm / B 155 mm / D 14 mm
Gewicht:	422 gr
Seiten:	255
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Inhalt:

The medical industry is today's biggest customer for biotechnology, and Grace presents its application as a continuum from the earliest experiments with skin grafting in the 1800s. He reports on the progress of gene therapy and other medical marvels - yet Grace argues that high-tech medicine does not guarantee longer, healthier lives any more than high-tech weapons guarantee world peace. Is biotechnology the answer to world hunger or is it self-serving rhetoric from agribusiness? Grace explores the reality between these two points of view through examples, including the controversy over bovine growth hormone, increased use of herbicides and pesticides, and genetic modification of plants. "Biotechnology Unzipped" looks at the promise of microbes cleaning up pollutants such as the Exxon Valdez spill.