biotechnology

Examines the science behind the genetic modification of foods, looking at how it has been used to create crops that are resistant to pests and disease, encourage plant and animal growth, and add vitamins to common foods; and discusses why some people are opposed to the practice of genetically altering food.

Examines the debate over genetically modified food, seeking to uncover the truth behind the promises made by biotech corporations, as well as the warnings issued by anticorporate ecologists who fear the effects of transgenics.

An introduction to biotechnology, providing information on the fundamentals of molecular and cellular biology; medical advances in cancer, infectious diseases, immunology, and genetics; experimental techniques; the Human Genome Project; cloning; and other related topics. Includes chapter quizzes, final exam, and answer keys.

Seventeen-year-old Jenna Angeline Fox wakes from a long coma with no memory of who she is, and is sent home with her mother and inexplicably hostile grandmother where hours of video recordings of her childhood help spark her memories and send her on a horrifying quest to learn what really happened to her.

Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.

Alphabetical, cross-referenced entries related to biotechnology and genetic engineering, including basic and technical terms, and also includes appendices of acronyms and abbreviations, chemical elements, genetic code, purine and pyrimidine bases found in nucleic acids, and side chains (R groups) for individual amino acids.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Friends Jenna, Locke, and Kara suffer a terrible accident that destroys their bodies, but their minds are preserved in a digital netherworld, allowing the friends to remain connected, until the day Jenna disappears, and then, decades later, Locke and Kara are given new bodies and discover everyone they knew and loved--except Jenna--are dead and gone.

This book presents the field of biotechnology, which links biology and technology, discussing how living things can be altered by science and engineering.

Presents more than twenty articles on a variety of biotechnology topics including the Human Genome Project, genetic testing, reprogramming the human body, cloning, rebuilding the human body, and genetically modified organisms.