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 eminently authoritative and lucid description of modern molecular biology and genetics, and the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Now in its third edition, it is fully revised and updated, taking advantage of a decade of progress in genetics and biotechnology. 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.

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Book Description

Reshaping Life is an authoritative yet easy-to-read description of molecular biology, genetics, and the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Now in its third edition, it has been fully updated, taking advantage of a decade of progress in genetics and biotechnology. 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.

Review

"The writing is concise, accessible, and the book appears to achieve most of its aims." Doody's Notes

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