Who Cloned My Cat?: Fun Adventures in Biotechnology

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ISBN: 9789814267656 | 9814267651
Cover: Trade Book
Copyright: 10/31/2010

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Featuring numerous stories with funny cartoons, this book, from a biotech professor and two cartoonists, shows that science can be fun and easy to digest for the layman reader while still interesting even for the specialist. Inspirational short stories offer a complete picture of the latest advances in modern biotechnologywithout technical jargon or equations. Also revealed is how to make German-style beer from rice, create snow with dead frost bacteria, clone a neighbor's cat, and measure the fitness of students.

Foreword	p. vii
Will Biotech Banish Wrinkles Forever?	p. 1
The Breast Milk of Civilization	p. 3
The Little Roaring Mouse	p. 5
Expensive and Often Useless	p. 7
Computers on the Compost Heap	p. 9
Hanging on to Hangovers	p. 11
How Fidel Saved US Biotech	p. 13
Killing Nemo	p. 15
007 and the Soup Stock	p. 17
Glow, Little Fish, Glow!	p. 19
Aspartame: Nothing but Sweetness	p. 23
"Irasshaimase, Baioteku"	p. 25
Vitamin C and the Fly	p. 27
Magic Bullets Against Cancer	p. 29
Helping Hands for Your Heart	p. 31
Nights on the Highway	p. 33
Doping? No, caterpillar fungus!	p. 35
Running Out of Phosphate	p. 37
Snowmax for the Alps?	p. 41
Praise for the Papaya	p. 43
Biochemical Bird Market	p. 45
One Pill for (Almost) Everything?	p. 47
Sterilized to Perfection	p. 49
A Tale About a Cold	p. 51
Biotech at the Barber's?	p. 53
Just as Long as It Catches Mice!	p. 55
Even Bacteria Grow Old	p. 57
Give Us This Day Our Daily...Mushroom	p. 59
The Moldy Monopoly	p. 63
Finding the Fountain of Youth	p. 65
Hong Kong and the Bird Flu	p. 67
The Gene Off Switch	p. 69
Going to the Dogs?	p. 71
Flipper Gets Artificially Fertilized	p. 73
Heavily Toxic	p. 75
Smart Medicines	p. 77
Digital Intestinal Bacteria	p. 79
Tamiflu Fever in Hong Kong	p. 81
Save the Wild Birds!	p. 83
Depression from Antidepressants?	p. 85
Mussel Extract Takes On Vioxx“	p. 87
Clone Trees That Glow in the Dark	p. 89
A Brief History of Ecstasy	p. 91
Snuppy, Made in Korea	p. 93
Molecular Laundresses	p. 95
My Own Private Genome?	p. 97
Goethe and the Caffeine	p. 99
The Cats and the Bird Flu	p. 101
Malaria on the Ropes	p. 105
Blue Jeans Bacteria Blues	p. 109
Academic Dog-Catching	p. 111
Fighting Infection with Beer	p. 115
The Secret of the Sour Barrels	p. 117
The "Red" Crystallographer	p. 119
Pasteur, Evildoer	p. 121
The Oil Guzzlers Are Coming	p. 123
Antibiotic Stinky White Fungus	p. 125
Praising Ginger	p. 127
Litmus and Hemp	p. 131
Another Spoonful of Red Wine?	p. 133
DNA Caps	p. 135
Take the Old One	p. 137
Was Mozart's Starling a Composer?	p. 139
Much Smoke About the Heart	p. 141
From Resignation to WHO	p. 143
"West Gelman" Eggs for Sale!	p. 145
DNA and My Ancestors	p. 147
The Chinese also Come from Africa	p. 149
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