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How synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves, chruchs first book, the authors interweave three levels of narrative. What follows is a full executive summary of regenesis. Until now, nature has been the exclusive arbiter of life, death, and evolution. How synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves, authorgeorge m. Coco pinchard, the consequences of love and sex coco pinchard series book 3 download pdf. How synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves duration. Regenesis how synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves book regenesis. Regenesis provides a fascinating overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce. With free synthetic biology kits, diybio, livly lab, biocurious, genspace, and others, the synthetic biology genie was well and truly out of the bottle.
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Geneticist george church and science writer ed regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes. Edward regis 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. How synthetic biology will reinvent nature and ourselves book by george m. In 2012, church published a book with ed regis about synthetic life and biology titled regenesis. The life sciences emerge as the new hightech in this paean to synthetic biology. Avaliable format in pdf, epub, mobi, kindle, ebook and audiobook.
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