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ISBN 10: 0198037902

ISBN 13: 9780198037903 

Author: John C. Avise

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: A Tale of Good and a Tale of Evil

• A New Papaya

• Microbiological Terrorism

Chapter 2: Framework of an Unfolding Revolution

• The Purview of Genetic Engineering

• Preliminary Genetic Background

Chapter 3: Engineering Microbes

• Insulin Factories

• A Growth Industry

• Microbial Factories for Pharmaceutical Drugs

• More Industrious Microbes

• Accelerated, Directed Evolution

• Concluding Thoughts

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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
References and Further Reading
Index

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