The Hope, Hype, and Reality of Genetic Engineering
Remarkable Stories from Agriculture, Industry, Medicine, and the Environment
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2004
257 pages
978-0-19-803790-3 (ISBN)
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An introductory tour into the stranger-than-fiction world of genetic engineering, a scientific realm inhabited by eager researchers intent upon fashioning a prodigious medley of genetically modified (GM) organisms to serve human needs.
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The Hope, Hype, and Reality of Genetic Engineering
Remarkable Stories from Agriculture, Industry, Medicine, and the Environment
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John C. Avise is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California at Irvine, and an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In twelve previous books and more than 280 scientific articles, he has helped to popularize as well as pioneer molecular genetic approaches in ecology, natural history, and evolution. He has received national and international awards for career-long contributions to ornithology, molecular ecology, biogeography, marine biology, and wildlife conservation.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 A Tale of Good and a Tale of Evil
- A New Papaya
- Microbiological Terrorism
- 2 Framework of an Unfolding Revolution
- The Purview of Genetic Engineering
- Preliminary Genetic Background
- 3 Engineering Microbes
- Insulin Factories
- A Growth Industry
- Microbial Factories for Pharmaceutical Drugs
- More Industrious Microbes
- Accelerated, Directed Evolution
- Concluding Thoughts
- 4 Getting Creative with Crops
- Combating Corn Borers
- Insecticidal Cotton
- Defensins and Potato Famines
- Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans
- Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
- Terminator Technology
- Chloroplast Concoctions
- Alleviating Dietary Deficiencies: The Golden Rice Story
- Supplementing Dietary Supplements: Nutrient Boosts
- Going Bananas with Vaccines
- Plantibiotics and Pharmaceutical Farming
- Alleviating Allergies
- Plastics from Plants
- The Flavr Savr Tomato
- A Cornucopia of GM Products
- Concluding Thoughts
- 5 Genetic Engineering in the Barnyard
- Spider's Silk from Goat's Milk
- Low Phosphorus Enviropigs
- Mice as Basic Research Models
- Hello Dolly
- Cow Clones
- Barnyard Bioreactors
- Vaccinating for Animal Health
- Engineering Foods for Animals
- Cloned Organ-Donor Pigs
- Possibilities with Poultry
- Copy Cats
- Good-bye Dolly
- Concluding Thoughts
- 6 Fields, Forests, and Streams
- Pulp Nonfiction
- Antimalarial Mosquitoes
- Fat, Sexy Salmon
- Antifreeze Proteins
- Mutation-Detecting Fish
- Sentinels of Aquatic Pollution
- Transgenic Environmental Biosensors
- Phytoremediation of Mercury Poisons
- Phytoremediation of Organic Pollutants
- Salt and Drought Plants
- Bioremediating Bacteria
- Cries over Spilled Oil
- Rabbit Contraception
- Daughterless Carp
- Pesticide Detoxification
- Blue Rose Petals and a Mauve Carnation
- No-mow Lawns
- Sperm Whale Oils and Jojoba Waxes
- Rescuing Endangered Species
- Concluding Thoughts
- 7 Genetic Tinkering with Humans
- Gene Therapies on SCIDs
- Gene Therapies in the Works
- New Angles on Gene Therapy Vectors
- Tissue Therapy via Gene Therapy: The Angiogenesis Story
- Tissue Therapy via Therapeutic Cloning
- Embryonic Stem Cells
- More on Stem Cells
- Whole-Human Clones
- Engineering the Germline
- More New-Age Eugenics
- Concluding Thoughts
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Tools and Workshops of Genetic Engineering
- Restricted Activities
- Cut and Paste
- Copy and Duplicate
- Viral Vectors
- Jumping Genes
- Galls and Goals in Plant Transformation
- Promoting Promoters and Constructing Constructs
- Reporter Genes
- Test-Tube Gene Cloning
- Hybridizing DNA Molecules
- Knockouts and Resuscitations
- Glossary
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