Synthetic : how life got made

Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.

In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, t...

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Main Author: Roosth, Sophia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Synthetic biology.
Bioengineering.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Analysis : synthesis
  • Interlude 1: Plastic fantastic
  • Life by design : evolution and creation tales in synthetic biology
  • Interlude 2: From still life to more intense life
  • The synthetic kingdom : transgenic kinship in the postgenomic era
  • Interlude 3: To make an eye, a hair, a leaf
  • The rebirth of the author : new life in legal and economic circuits
  • Interlude 4: Much more than human
  • Biotechnical agnosticism : fragmented life and labor among the machines
  • Interlude 5: What comes before
  • Life makes itself at home : the rise of biohacking as political action
  • Interlude 6: Life embryonic and prophetic
  • Latter-day Lazarus : biological salvage and species revival
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: A note on method.

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