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22%OFFSophia Roosth - Synthetic: How Life Got Made - 9780226440460 - V9780226440460
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Synthetic: How Life Got Made

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Description for Synthetic: How Life Got Made Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Life is not what it used to be. In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and made a resolution: 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, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture: viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In Synthetic: How Life ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226440460
SKU
V9780226440460
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About Sophia Roosth
Sophia Roosth is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor for history of science at Harvard University.

Reviews for Synthetic: How Life Got Made
For all the rigour that goes into their making, science and technology are still things that human beings do, and as Roosth reminds us, humans are messy. We have opinions, passions and biases; we argue, we learn, we fall in and out of love. As a synthetic biologist, I've seen first-hand what may yet prove to be foundational debates about ... Read more

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