Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience

by Stuart Newman, Tina Stevens, Stuart Newman

Book Overview

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "extreme genetic engineering." In 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138043230
• ISBN13: 9781138043237
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"