Who Cloned My Cat? : Fun Adventures in Biotechnology

ISBN-13: 9789814267656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 178 str.

Reinhard Renneberg

Opis

"Science is fun " Is the motto of this fun-filled book by Prof Reinhard Renneberg. Do you know that in Japan, washing machines have no "cooking program" thanks to enzyme detergents? How to make German-style beer from rice? How do you make real snow with dead frost-bacteria? Is using bio-ethanol as a car fuel going against our environment? How can you clone your neighbor's beautiful cat? How to eliminate breast cancer genes before a baby girl is born? Can the financial crisis be solved by breeding better stock market traders? How to measure the fitness of students? The questions are endless.
Cartoonists Manfred Bofinger (Germany) and Ming Fai Chow (Hong Kong) here together with Prof Renneberg, created a fireworks of stories with funny cartoons, which are easily digestable for the layman reader but at the same time will interest even the specialists. Through this collection of inspirational short stories, you will get a complete picture of the latest advances in modern biotechnology with no technical jargons, no equations and no animals harmed

Recenzje

"Renneberg's newest book, Who Cloned My Cat?, is a personal journey through the science and politics of biotechnology. Following in the tradition of Lewis Thomas and Stephen J. Gould, Renneberg has created a book perfectly suited for recreational reading, full of scientific wonder and social context."
—Prof. David Goodsell, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

"What a scientific book - interesting and informative! Using many funny illustrations and simple words, biotechnology is no longer a bugaboo for common people. This is the book that experts as well as beginners want to keep at their side."
—Prof. Michihiko Kobayashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Spis treści

Will Biotech Banish Wrinkles Forever? The Breast Milk of Civilization. The Little Roaring Mouse. Expensive and Often Useless. Computers on the Compost Heap. Hanging on to Hangovers. How Fidel Saved US Biotech. Killing Nemo. 007 and the Soup Stock. Glow, Little Fish, Glow! Aspartame: Nothing but Sweetness. "Irasshaimase, Baioteku". Vitamin C and the Fly. Magic Bullets Against Cancer. Helping Hands for Your Heart. Nights on the Highway. Doping? No, caterpillar fungus!. Running Out of Phosphate. Snowmax for the Alps? Praise for the Papaya. Biochemical Bird Market. One Pill for (Almost) Everything? Sterilized to Perfection. A Tale about a Cold. Biotech at the Barber’s? Just as Long as It Catches Mice! Even Bacteria Grow Old. Give Us This Day Our Daily… Mushroom. The Moldy Monopoly. Finding the Fountain of Youth. Hong Kong and the Bird Flu. The Gene Off Switch. Going to the Dogs? Flipper Gets Artificially Fertilized. Heavily Toxic. Smart Medicines. Digital Intestinal Bacteria. Tamiflu Fever in Hong Kong. Save the Wild Birds! Depression from Antidepressants? Mussel Extract Takes On Vioxx®. Clone Trees That Glow in the Dark. A Brief History of Ecstasy. Snuppy, Made in Korea. Molecular Laundresses. My Own Private Genome? Goethe and the Caffeine. The Cats and the Bird Flu. Malaria on the Ropes. Blue Jeans Bacteria Blues. Academic Dog-Catching. Fighting Infection with Beer. The Secret of the Sour Barrels. The "Red" Crystallographer. Pasteur, Evildoer. The Oil Guzzlers Are Coming. Antibiotic Stinky White Fungus. Praising Ginger. Litmus and Hemp. Another Spoonful of Red Wine? DNA Caps. Take the Old One. Was Mozart’s Starling a Composer? Much Smoke about the Heart. From Resignation to WHO. "West Gelman" Eggs for Sale! DNA and My Ancestors. The Chinese also Come from Africa. Tanking Up with Corn. Competition Is Good for Business. Amino Acids, not Made in Japan! Busy Bees: It’s All in Their Genes! Leeuwenhoek’s Wee Beasties. Genetic Engineering in Your Washer. Yams and Cortisone. Xylophagy in My Bookcase. DNA Gunshots into the Sea. Genetic Fingerprints. Biofuel from Wood? Microbesoft?

O autorze

Reinhard Renneberg has been professor of analytic biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (www.ust.hk) since 1955. He is the author of the extremely successful and much-lauded volume "Biotechnology for Beginners", over 5,300 copies of which have been sold in 18 months. He has also written three other books on biotechnology, including the present volume. He is a co-author of the Roempp Biotechnology Dictionary, has written four monographs and 250 publications and holds 20 patents. In addition, he is involved in two biotechnology companies in Germany and China.