biotechnology

Presents a guide to understanding biotechnology, featuring alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions and explanations of words and terms associated with the science. Includes a time line.

Provides descriptions of various careers in biotechnology, each with information on job duties, requirements and qualifications, salaries, and future opportunities.

Chronicles the development of biological science, discusses how the public's view of it has changed over the last two centuries, and relates its progress and society's acceptance of it to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein.".

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.

Presents an overview of issues surrounding the changing role of biotechnology and genetic engineering, and includes a chronology, brief biographies of significant individuals in the field, a glossary of terms, and a guide to further research.

Describes the history and applications of biotechnology, focusing on how scientists develop new organisms by altering the genetic makeup of living things.

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.

Cornell professor of nanoscience Jake Sterling races against the clock to stop a terrorist group from stealing the ultimate biological weapon and risks his life to save the world from destruction.

The result of experimental breeding between a human and ape, fourteen-year-old Lucy is rescued from the Congo jungle where she has lived exclusively among apes and experiences stunning revelations about herself when she is relocated to a Chicago suburb.