The coming biotech age : the business of bio-materials /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, Richard W., 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw Hill, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • The bioterials century
  • The Twenty-First century: the age of bioterials
  • Conquering matter: explorations in the cellular and subatomic universe
  • Bioeconomics: the new laws of bioterials
  • The first law of bioeconomics: the daily doubling of knowledge
  • The second law of bioeconomics: the global scope of bioterials is inversely proportional to its subatomic scale
  • The third law of bioeconomics: accelerating vertical growth rates
  • New materials: every atom a factory
  • Designer genes: re-engineering the body
  • Betting the "pharma": the biomedical complex
  • Betting the farm: the bionic farmer
  • Financing the dream: the biocapitalists
  • Bioethics: the Chinese wall
  • Afterword: 2005, the end of the beginning
  • Appendix: statement of principles.