This series investigates scientific developments and theories that give rise to concern and controversy. Each book introduces the interest groups, features details of the development or discovery, explains the underlying science and techniques and reviews the issues and opinions involved.
This volume gives a broad overview of the subject and introduces the reader to some of the more common uses of gene cloning from applications in research to practical applications in biotechnology and medicine.
In a variation on Gertrude Stein's 'A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose', the Court found that an embryo created by nuclear transfer rather than by fertilization was an embryo nonetheless. The Pro-Life Alliance then appealed to the ...
Examines the scientific, legal, and ethical issues surrounding animal cloning technology.
What makes a person who they are? This is one of the fundamental questions of human life.
Could This addition to the Sci-Hi series explains what cloning is and what scientists are trying to do with the knowledge and ... Sci-Hi is a visually stimulating series that takes learning science topics to a whole new level!
Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning considers the scientific and medical sides of this issue, plus ethical issues that pertain to human-subjects research.
This thought-provoking volume explores the history of cloning, the ethical issues it raises, where research may lead it in the future, and cloning's role in curing diseases, creating custom organs, improving food, and saving animals.
This book examines how human cloning has been depicted in science fiction, the development of existing cloning technology, how scientists have used these techniques in the past, and their potential application for the future.
Traditionally, the brewer's or baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been the biotechnologists' choice. A growing number of expression systems using other yeasts are becoming available, e.g. Hansenula polymorpha, Pichia pastoris, ...
See “Best Sellers: Fiction Nonfiction Footnotes,” New York Times, April 23-June 11, 1978, sec. Book Review. 113. Kolata, Clone, 118. 114. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and ...