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Title: BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World by Michael Fumento ISBN: 1-893554-75-9 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The first book to explain in depth what biotech is doing
Comment: Michael Fumento's BioEvolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World is the first book to explain in depth what biotech is doing, its exceptionally fast scientific advances and discoveries, and its potential for impact on human lives. From its potential to cure the most challenging diseases to its promise to increase life spans and quality, this pro-biotech title considers all the benefits of its research directions.
Rating: 5
Summary: A realistic and optimistic apology for biotechnology
Comment: Every facet of biotechnology is fascinating, and even those embedded in it as scientist, engineer, or technican are always surprised at the rapid advancements in it that are now taking place. The biological world is an enormously complex picture puzzle, the pieces of which, thanks to powerful computational machines, advanced mathematics, and artificial intelligence, are just beginning to be fitted together. Once thought of as a purely descriptive science, biology is now quantitative, and engineers, physicists, and mathematicians are moving into it with great zeal.
Readers of all backgrounds will obtain an overview of the breathtaking advances in biotechnology in this book. It is fortunate that the author is not a sycophant for the biotechnology industry, but instead gives a sound apology for it, supported by scholarly evidence and references. Indeed, the book contains 147 pages of references and hyperlinks for the reader to consult if needed. Even if the reader does not have a background in biology or genetics, the presentation is detailed enough that such a reader can obtain the much needed insight into the powerful role that biotechnology will play in the twenty-first century.
Biotechnology, via transgenic strategies and other techniques in genetic engineering, has permuted the natural world, and has produced animals and plants that have surpassed, and will greatly surpass, any of the dreams of science fiction. Even more importantly, as is brought out in detail by the author, these animals and plants are bringing new ways to feed hungry populations and heal the sick. The human imagination is challenged by these discoveries, and no doubt will be even more so in the near future, as biotechnology continues its unrelenting advance.
Indeed, one reads of spider genes inserted in goats, producing silk in their udders, and giving us ample amounts of the strongest fiber yet known. The benefits? Tissue repair, artificial tendons, and body armor for soldiers, to name a few the author mentions... the creation of transgenic mice that secrete human growth hormone in their ejaculate...eggs of transgenic chickens that have fourteen proteins....the list goes on and on. A perusal of his references reveals many more. The database of new animals and plants keeps growing and growing.
The author is fair in his assessment of viable biotechnologies, cautions against "science by press release", utopianism, and alerts the reader to the legal issues that confront the use of the different biotechnologies. His confidence and optimism though are refreshing and inspiring. He ends his book with the following words:
"The process has begun and it's accelerating. The ultimate benefits are unimaginable, while the near-term ones are incredible. Hold onto the bar in front of you and don't stand up. We're in for one heck of thrill ride."
He's right!
Rating: 5
Summary: Hope for the future, in general...and my own!
Comment: BioEvolution is a superb book! I have a progressive form of MS, and due to both my disease and my location, keep up with some of the progress in this arena. Just how Mr. Fumento does keep on top of pretty much all biotechnological developments is an awe-inspiring mystery. I found his sources and footnotes, as always, completely trustworthy. His interpretation of those sources is "wildly accurate", at least in my very humble opinion! I have many times nearly given up any hope of cure for my own and others' diseases, but BioEvolution presents a different future for "us afflictees"--and Mr. Fumento often is more conservative than most in his "predictions". BioEvolution is a book of hope--hope that will come to be. I keep my copy on my dresser and re-read it frequently. Definitely a must-read!
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Title: The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging by Michael D. West ISBN: 0385509286 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion by Brian Alexander ISBN: 0738207616 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell ISBN: 0465081436 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray ISBN: 006019247X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society by Maxwell J. Mehlman ISBN: 0253342740 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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