Book description
The key scientific discoveries of the 21st century will emerge from the biosciences. These discoveries will impact our lives in ways we can only now begin to imagine. In this book, two of the field's leading experts help us imagine those impacts. Paul and Joyce A. Schoemaker tour the remarkable field of biosciences as it stands today, and preview the directions and innovations that are most likely to emerge in the coming years. They offer a clear, non-technical overview of crucial current developments that are likely to have enormous impact, and address issues ranging from increased human longevity to global warming, bio-warfare to personalized medicine. Along the way, they illuminate each of the exciting technologies and hot-button issues associated with contemporary biotechnology - including stem cells, cloning, probiotics, DNA microarrays, proteomics, gene therapy, and a whole lot more. The Schoemakers identify emerging economic, political, and technical drivers and obstacles that are likely to powerfully impact the way the biosciences progress. Then, drawing on Paul Schoemaker's unsurpassed experience helping global organizations prepare for the future, the authors sketch multiple long-term scenarios for the biosciences - and reveal how they will impact your health, family, career, society, even the Earth itself.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Praise for Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Living well beyond 100
- 2. A short history of biomedicine
- 3. Snapshot of the biosciences
- 4. Bio-driven convergence
- 5. The business of biomedicine
- 6. Healthcare under stress
- 7. Wildcards for the future
- 8. Scenarios up to 2025
- 9. What it all means
- A. DNA, RNA, and protein
- B. Cloning genes
- C. Complexity of the genome
- Glossary of Biomedical Terms
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Index
- Financial Times Press
Product information
- Title: Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2009
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780137043866
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