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| A Tale of Good and a Tale of Evil | |
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| A New Papaya | |
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| Microbiological Terrorism | |
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| Framework of an Unfolding Revolution | |
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| The Purview of Genetic Engineering | |
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| Preliminary Genetic Background | |
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| Engineering Microbes | |
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| Insulin Factories | |
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| A Growth Industry | |
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| Microbial Factories for Pharmaceutical Drugs | |
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| More Industrious Microbes | |
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| Accelerated, Directed Evolution | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Getting Creative with Crops | |
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| Combating Corn Borers | |
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| Insecticidal Cotton | |
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| Defensins and Potato Famines | |
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| Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans | |
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| Herbicide-Resistant Weeds | |
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| Terminator Technology | |
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| Chloroplast Concoctions | |
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| Alleviating Dietary Deficiencies: The Golden Rice Story | |
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| Supplementing Dietary Supplements: Nutrient Boosts | |
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| Going Bananas with Vaccines | |
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| Plantibiotics and Pharmaceutical Farming | |
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| Alleviating Allergies | |
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| Plastics from Plants | |
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| The Flavr Savr Tomato | |
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| A Comucopia of GM Products | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Genetic Engineering in the Barnyard | |
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| Spider's Silk from Goat's Milk | |
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| Low Phosphorus Enviropigs | |
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| Mice as Basic Research Models | |
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| Hello Dolly | |
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| Cow Clones | |
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| Barnyard Bioreactors | |
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| Vaccinating for Animal Health | |
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| Engineering Foods for Animals | |
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| Cloned Organ-Donor Pigs | |
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| Possibilities with Poultry | |
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| Copy Cats | |
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| Good-bye Dolly | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Fields, Forests, and Streams | |
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| Pulp Nonfiction | |
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| Antimalarial Mosquitoes | |
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| Fat, Sexy Salmon | |
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| Antifreeze Proteins | |
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| Mutation-Detecting Fish | |
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| Sentinels of Aquatic Pollution | |
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| Transgenic Environmental Biosensors | |
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| Phytoremediation of Mercury Poisons | |
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| Phytoremediation of Organic Pollutants | |
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| Salt and Drought Plants | |
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| Bioremediating Bacteria | |
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| Cries over Spilled Oil | |
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| Rabbit Contraception | |
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| Daughterless Carp | |
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| Pesticide Detoxification | |
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| Blue Rose Petals and a Mauve Carnation | |
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| No-mow Lawns | |
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| Sperm Whale Oils and Jojoba Waxes | |
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| Rescuing Endangered Species | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Genetic Tinkering with Humans | |
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| Gene Therapies on SCIDs | |
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| Gene Therapies in the Works | |
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| New Angles on Gene Therapy Vectors | |
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| Tissue Therapy via Gene Therapy: The Angiogenesis Story | |
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| Tissue Therapy via Therapeutic Cloning | |
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| Embryonic Stem Cells | |
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| More on Stem Cells | |
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| Whole-Human Clones | |
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| Engineering the Germline | |
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| More New-Age Eugenics | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Tools and Workshops of Genetic Engineering | |
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| Restricted Activities | |
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| Cut and Paste | |
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| Copy and Duplicate | |
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| Viral Vectors | |
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| Jumping Genes | |
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| Galls and Goals in Plant Transformation | |
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| Promoting Promoters and Constructing Constructs | |
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| Reporter Genes | |
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| Test-Tube Gene Cloning | |
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| Hybridizing DNA Molecules | |
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| Knockouts and Resuscitations | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |