Reshaping Life: Key Issues in Genetic Engineering - Hardcover

Nossal, G. J. V.; Coppel, Ross L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521818788 ISBN 13: 9780521818780

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Reshaping Life is an authoritative yet easy-to-read description of modern molecular biology and genetics, and the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Now in its third edition, it has been fully revised and updated, taking advantage of a decade of progress in genetics and biotechnology. No other book straddles the scientific and the social dimensions of genetics as lucidly. It offers a concise working knowledge of DNA science and of those aspects of cell biology needed to understand such issues as animal cloning, genetically modified food, and gene therapy. It examines the debates on the sociological and ethical issues surrounding modern technology, laying out the issues for the reader, while urging a rational approach. Reshaping Life is well suited to general readers interested in science and medicine, as well as undergraduate and graduate students across a broad band of disciplines within the life sciences.

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'... clear, readable and worthy.' Genetical Research

Book Description

Reshaping Life is an authoritative yet easy-to-read description of molecular biology, genetics, and the ethics of genetic engineering. This third edition takes advantage of a decade of progress in genetics and biotechnology, offering a concise description of DNA science and topics such as animal cloning, genetically modified food, and gene therapy, and their concurrent ethical implications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521818788
• ISBN 13: 9780521818780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 264