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    FROM BIOTECHNOLOGY TO GENOMES
    The Meaning of the Double Helix

    by Philippe Goujon (Universite Catholique de Lille, France)

    Table of Contents (11k)
    Foreword (13k)
    Introduction: The Essence of Life and the Labyrinth of the Genome (36k)

    Aimed at scientists and non-specialised readers alike, this book retraces the source of national and international biotechnology programmes by examining the origins of biotechnology and its political and economic interpretation by large nations. With a foreword by André Goffeau, who initiated the European Yeast Genome Project, the book describes the achievements of the first genetic and physical maps, as well as the political and scientific genesis of the American Human Genome Project. Following these advances, the author discusses the European biotechnology strategy, the birth and implementation of European biotechnology programmes and the yeast genome project. After a detailed description of scientific policy and administrative, technical and scientific achievements, the principal stages of the yeast project and its major benefits are discussed. This enables the reader to obtain a panoramic view of this developing discipline at the dawn of the twenty-first century, as well as a better knowledge of the means deployed at international level. The conclusion gives a very detailed account of the genesis and early stages of this new scientific and technological field called genomics which appears to be a key component of modern industry. By using an epistemological analysis, the conclusion poses the problem of a new representation of life and critically appraises the limitations and deficiencies.


    Contents:

    • The Invention of Biotechnology
    • Political Interpretations of Biotechnology and the Birth of the First Research Programs
    • The Foundations of the Heralded Revolution
    • Attack on the Genomes: The First Genetic and Physical Maps
    • The Human Genome Project and the International Sequencing Programs
    • European Biotechnological Strategy and Sequencing the Yeast Genome
    • The Decryption of Life
    • Conclusion: The Dreams of Reason or the New Biology's Dangerous Liaisons
    • Dreams or Nightmares? Man Reasoned out by His Genes


    Readership: Students, professors, science historians, science policymakers, physicians and those in the biotechnology industry.

    808pp Pub. date: Dec 2001
    ISBN 978-981-02-4328-9
    981-02-4328-6
    US$78 / £53


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