- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Summary
- 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, 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' cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780226440637
- OCLC
- EDZ0001651286
- Author
Roosth, Sophia, author.
- Title
Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.
- Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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