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The age of living machines : how biology will build the next technology revolution / Susan Hockfield.
- Title
- The age of living machines : how biology will build the next technology revolution / Susan Hockfield.
- Author
- Hockfield, Susan,
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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- Description
- xi, 229 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Outlines the next technology revolution and how it will change human life, drawing on the latest discoveries in biology and engineering to profile such innovations as computer-engineered crops, protein-based water filters, and cancer-detecting nanoparticles.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-219) and index.
- Contents
- Where the future comes from -- Can biology build a better battery? -- Water, water everywhere -- Cancer fighting nanoparticles -- Amplifying the brain -- Feeding the world -- Cheating Malthus, once again : making convergence happen faster.
- ISBN
- 9780393634747
- 0393634744
- LCCN
- 2018054089
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries