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Biotechnology and Culture

Author : Paul E. Brodwin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028256
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Biotechnology and Culture by : Paul E. Brodwin

Download or read book Biotechnology and Culture written by Paul E. Brodwin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on technology’s effect on our relationship with our bodies: “A timely and perceptive look . . . at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day.” —Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley As birth, illness, and death increasingly come under technological control, struggles arise over who should control the body and define its limits and capacities. Biotechnologies turn the traditional “facts of life” into matters of expert judgment and partisan debate. They blur the boundary separating people from machines, male from female, and nature from culture. In these diverse ways, they destroy the “gold standard” of the body, formerly taken for granted. Biotechnologies become a convenient, tangible focus for political contests over the nuclear family, legal and professional authority, and relations between the sexes. Medical interventions also transform intimate personal experience: giving birth, building new families, and surviving serious illness now immerse us in a web of machines, expert authority, and electronic images. We use and imagine the body in radically different ways, and from these emerge new collective discourses of morality and personal identity. This book brings together historians, anthropologists, cultural critics, and feminists to examine the broad cultural effects of technologies such as surrogacy, tissue-culture research, and medical imaging. The moral anxieties raised by biotechnologies and their circulation across class and national boundaries provide other interdisciplinary themes for discourse in these essays. The authors favor complex social dramas of the refusal, celebration, or ambivalent acceptance of new medical procedures. Eschewing polemics or pure theory, contributors show how biotechnology collides with everyday life and reshapes the political and personal meanings of the body. Contributors include Paul Brodwin, Lisa Cartwright, Thomas Csordas, Gillian Goslinga-Roy, Deborah Grayson, Donald Joralemon, Hannah Landecker, Thomas Laqueur, Robert Nelson, Susan Squier, Janelle Taylor, and Alice Wexler. “This impressive collection offers a number of rich examples of why the development of anthropological studies of science, technology, and their disruptive social effects is a leading edge of critical enquiry.” —Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University

Plant Tissue Culture, Development, and Biotechnology

Author : Robert N. Trigiano
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439896143
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis Plant Tissue Culture, Development, and Biotechnology by : Robert N. Trigiano

Download or read book Plant Tissue Culture, Development, and Biotechnology written by Robert N. Trigiano and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the vast umbrella of Plant Sciences resides a plethora of highly specialized fields. Botanists, agronomists, horticulturists, geneticists, and physiologists each employ a different approach to the study of plants and each for a different end goal. Yet all will find themselves in the laboratory engaging in what can broadly be termed biotechnol

Maintaining Cultures for Biotechnology and Industry

Author : Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080535753
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (357 download)

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Book Synopsis Maintaining Cultures for Biotechnology and Industry by : Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera

Download or read book Maintaining Cultures for Biotechnology and Industry written by Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-02-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To retain their usefulness, cultures that manufacture economically valuable products must be uncontaminated, viable, and genetically stable. Maintaining Cultures for Biotechnology and Industry gives practical advice necessary to preserve and maintain cells and microorganisms important to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in ways that ensure they will continue to be able to synthesize those valuable metabolites. This book covers not just those strains currently being used but also those yet to be discovered and engineered. This text is essential for anyone working with cultures who wants to avoid the frustration of losing strains and needs to be able to devise and evaluate new strategies for preservation. Written by hands-on experts in their respective fields Contains helpful tables and protocols for preserving or maintaining cells, cultures and viruses Discusses means to preserve cells by freezing, lyophilization, drying, cyoprotection, spore storage, continuous propagation and subculturing when absolutely necessary, and others Gives information needed to test cultures for stable retention of important characteristics Gives principles needed to devise and evaluate preservation strategies for newly identified and newly engineered cells and organisms Lists culture sources for each class of organism Includes information for characterizing and monitoring recombinant organisms, especially important because of their propensity for genetic stability Discusses the history of the continually evolving field of culture preservation Examines the importance of genetically stable cultures as it relates to maintaining patent positions

Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology

Author : Karl-Hermann Neumann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540938834
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology by : Karl-Hermann Neumann

Download or read book Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology written by Karl-Hermann Neumann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a general introduction as well as a selected survey of key advances in the fascinating field of plant cell and tissue culture as a tool in biotechnology. After a detailed description of the various basic techniques employed in leading laboratories worldwide, follows an extended account of important applications in, for example, plant propagation, secondary metabolite production and gene technology. Additionally, some chapters are devoted to historical developments in this domain, metabolic aspects, nutrition, growth regulators, differentiation and the development of culture systems. The book will prove useful to both newcomers and specialists, and even “old hands” in tissue culture should find some challenging ideas to think about.

Biotechnology and Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Author : Franco Palla
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319461680
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Biotechnology and Conservation of Cultural Heritage written by Franco Palla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides detailed insights into the role of microorganisms and microbial products in biodeterioration, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage. Topics to be discussed are microbial colonization and their growth control on both artworks and aerosol of indoor environments such as libraries or museums, as well as human health hazard from exposure to microbial agents. In addition innovative biotechnological protocols and strategies for the removal of undesired layers on artwork surfaces are described in detail. Also the advances and perspectives in this emerging biotechnological field are discussed, supported by the latest original findings.

The Global Genome

Author : Eugene Thacker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262250306
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Global Genome written by Eugene Thacker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How global biotechnology is redefining "life itself." In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks us to consider the relationship of these three entities and argues that—by their existence and their interrelationships—they are fundamentally redefining the notion of biological life itself. Biological science and the biotech industry are increasingly organized at a global level, in large part because of the use of the Internet in exchanging biological data. International genome sequencing efforts, genomic databases, the development of World Intellectual Property policies, and the "borderless" business of biotech are all evidence of the global intersections of biology and informatics—of genetic codes and computer codes. Thacker points out the internal tension in the very concept of biotechnology: the products are more "tech" than "bio," but the technology itself is fully biological, composed of the biomaterial labor of genes, proteins, cells, and tissues. Is biotechnology a technology at all, he asks, or is it a notion of "life itself" that is inseparable from its use in the biotech industry? The three sections of the book cover the three primary activities of biotechnology today: the encoding of biological materials into digital form—as in bioinformatics and genomics; its recoding in various ways—including the "biocolonialism" of mapping genetically isolated ethnic populations and the newly pervasive concern over "biological security"; and its decoding back into biological materiality—as in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Thacker moves easily from science to philosophy to political economics, enlivening his account with ideas from such thinkers as Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, and Paul Virilio. The "global genome," says Thacker, makes it impossible to consider biotechnology without the context of globalism.

Plant Tissue Culture Engineering

Author : S. Dutta Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402036949
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Plant Tissue Culture Engineering written by S. Dutta Gupta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is my privilege to contribute the foreword for this unique volume entitled: “Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,” edited by S. Dutta Gupta and Y. Ibaraki. While there have been a number of volumes published regarding the basic methods and applications of plant tissue and cell culture technologies, and even considerable attention provided to bioreactor design, relatively little attention has been afforded to the engineering principles that have emerged as critical contributions to the commercial applications of plant biotechnologies. This volume, “Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,” signals a turning point: the recognition that this specialized field of plant science must be integrated with engineering principles in order to develop efficient, cost effective, and large scale applications of these technologies. I am most impressed with the organization of this volume, and the extensive list of chapters contributed by expert authors from around the world who are leading the emergence of this interdisciplinary enterprise. The editors are to be commended for their skilful crafting of this important volume. The first two parts provide the basic information that is relevant to the field as a whole, the following two parts elaborate on these principles, and the last part elaborates on specific technologies or applications.

Biotechnology and Culture

Author : Erik Baark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biotechnology and Culture written by Erik Baark and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plant Cell and Tissue Culture – A Tool in Biotechnology

Author : Karl-Hermann Neumann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303049098X
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Plant Cell and Tissue Culture – A Tool in Biotechnology by : Karl-Hermann Neumann

Download or read book Plant Cell and Tissue Culture – A Tool in Biotechnology written by Karl-Hermann Neumann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is clearly structured with fourteen richly illustrated chapters and practical examples for easy understanding and direct implementation. The methods and findings developed in the authors’ group are presented in detailed, revised chapters. Readers will find valuable updates on the molecular basis of biotechnological processes, secondary metabolite production and genetic engineering. In addition, the basic principles of important biotechnologies, as well as examples of specially designed crops that deliver improved productivity under stress conditions, are presented. This second edition sets the direction for future research on the basic aspects of plant tissue culture and its applications in the fields of secondary metabolite production and genetic engineering. It provides both general and specific information for students, teachers, academic researchers and industrial teams who are interested in new developments in plant tissue culture and its applications.

Farmageddon

Author : Brewster Kneen
Publisher : Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society
ISBN 13 : 9780865713949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Farmageddon by : Brewster Kneen

Download or read book Farmageddon written by Brewster Kneen and published by Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food industry and biotech expert Brewster Kneen reveals how "life-science" conglomerates are genetically engineering food plants for corporate profit with little concern for health or the effect on the environment. Cartoon illustrations.

Cell and Tissue Culture

Author : Alan Doyle
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471982555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Cell and Tissue Culture written by Alan Doyle and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1998-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cell and Tissue Culture: Laboratory Procedures in BiotechnologyEdited by Alan Doyle Centre for Applied Microbiology &Research, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK. and J. Bryan GriffithsScientific Consultancy & Publishing, Porton, Salisbury, UK.Cell and Tissue Culture: Laboratory Procedures in Biotechnologyintroduces the reader to animal cell culture methods describing thekey cells, core techniques, how to scale up the culture forcommercial production, and regulatory aspects. This book provideseasy to follow, step-by-step protocols, with trouble-shooting tipsand notes on time considerations. Alternative procedures,background information and references supplement the mainprocedures described. Other features include: * Experimental examples to indicate expected results; * Quick reference symbols such as safety icons with warning notes;and, * A list of suppliers is provided to allow easy access tolaboratory products. Written by a team of international scientists, Cell and TissueCulture: Laboratory Procedures in Biotechnology will be of interestto researchers, technicians and process engineers using cellculture within the biotechnology, biomedicine and pharmaceuticalindustries.

Large-Scale Mammalian Cell Culture Technology

Author : Lubiniecki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135143571X
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Large-Scale Mammalian Cell Culture Technology written by Lubiniecki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach, integrating biochemistry, biology, genetics, and engineering for the effective production of protein pharmaceuticals. The volume offers a biological perspective of large-scale animal cell culture and examines diverse processing strategies, process management, regulator

Cell Culture Technology for Pharmaceutical and Cell-Based Therapies

Author : Sadettin Ozturk
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0849351065
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis Cell Culture Technology for Pharmaceutical and Cell-Based Therapies by : Sadettin Ozturk

Download or read book Cell Culture Technology for Pharmaceutical and Cell-Based Therapies written by Sadettin Ozturk and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by two of the most distinguished pioneers in genetic manipulation and bioprocess technology, this bestselling reference presents a comprehensive overview of current cell culture technology used in the pharmaceutical industry. Contributions from several leading researchers showcase the importance of gene discovery and genomic technology devel

Handbook of Microalgal Culture

Author : Amos Richmond
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405172495
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Microalgal Culture written by Amos Richmond and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Microalgal Culture is truly a landmarkpublication, drawing on some 50 years of worldwide experience inmicroalgal mass culture. This important book comprisescomprehensive reviews of the current available information onmicroalgal culture, written by 40 contributing authors from aroundthe globe. The book is divided into four parts, with Part I detailingbiological and environmental aspects of microalgae with referenceto microalgal biotechnology and Part II looking in depth at majortheories and techniques of mass cultivation. Part III compriseschapters on the economic applications of microalgae, includingcoverage of industrial production, the use of microalgae in humanand animal nutrition and in aquaculture, in nitrogen fixation,hydrogen and methane production, and in bioremediation of pollutedwater. Finally, Part IV looks at new frontiers and includeschapters on genetic engineering, microalgae as platforms forrecombinant proteins, bioactive chemicals, heterotrophicproduction, microalgae as gene-delivery systems for expressingmosquitocidal toxins and the enhancement of marine productivity forclimate stabilization and food security. Handbook of Microalgal Culture is an essential purchasefor all phycologists and also those researching aquatic systems,aquaculture and plant sciences. There is also much of great use toresearchers and those involved in product formulation withinpharmaceutical, nutrition and food companies. Libraries in alluniversities and research establishments teaching and researchingin chemistry, biological and pharmaceutical sciences, food sciencesand nutrition, and aquaculture will need copies of this book ontheir shelves. Amos Richmond is at the Blaustein Institute for DesertResearch, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology

Author : Pravin Chandra Trivedi
Publisher : Pointer Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788171324477
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology written by Pravin Chandra Trivedi and published by Pointer Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnological Developments And Genetic Engineering Are Revolutionising Agriculture And Medical Science. The Many Applications Of Biotechnology Include The Production Of New And Improved Foods, Industrial Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals And Livestock, And Offer Hope For Restoring The Environment And Protecting Endangered Species. Plant Tissue Culture And Biotechnology Contains 17 Chapters On Varied Aspects Of Current Interest And Progress Made In The Field Of Biotechnology In The Recent Past. A Major Section Includes Articles On Plant Tissue Culture And Application Of Biotechnology In Agriculture, Medicine And Environmental Management. The Potential Role Of Biotechnology In Food And Agriculture; Transgenic In Oil Seeds; Genetically Modified Plants For Sustainable Food Security; Synthetic Seed; Plant Genetic Engineering; Biotechnological Achievement In Sugarcane, Etc. Provide Information On Application Of Biotechnology In Crop Improvement. The Book Also Covers Information On Stem Cell Therapy; Nanotechnology And Role Of Biotechnology In Bioremediation. Other Topics Include Survey Of Alkaloids, Steroids And Flavonoids Of In Vivo And In Vitro Grown Medicinal Plants; Role Of Tissue Culture In Floriculture; Micropropagation Of Aloe Barbadensis And Datura Metel; Plant Propagation And Bioreactors Application In Tissue Culture And Regeneration Studies In Brassica Species Provide Necessary Information Using Tissue Culture Technique. A Comprehensive Account Of The Role Of Plant-Based Anti-Cancer Drugs In The Management Of Cancer And Identification Of Orchid Hybrids Through Isozyme Analysis Have Added To The Value Of The Book. This Book Will Be Useful To Biotechnologists, Biologists, Agriculture Scientists, Researchers, Teachers And Students Of Plant Sciences.

Practical Book of Biotechnology & Plant Tissue Culture

Author : Madhavi Adhav
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8121932009
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Practical Book of Biotechnology & Plant Tissue Culture written by Madhavi Adhav and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts with an introduction to basic knowledge of instruments which deals with principle, working, uses, limitations and precautions of about ten instruments.Basic Knowledge of precaution of;Culture Media for Bacterial Growth, Plant Tissue Culture and Standard Solutions has been given in simple and easy-to-follow language.The biotechnology exercises such as Plasmid and DNA isolation, DNA size determination, Restriction digestion, PCR, Gus gene assay, RFLP, RAPD, Isolation of bacteria by streak and Pour plate method, Growth characteristics of E.Coli by Plating and Turbidimetric method and the plant tissues culture exercises such as Cell suspension culture, Androgenesis, Somatic embryogenesis, Preparation of plantlet to greenhouse field, have been given in a student friendly manner. Matter for Viva-voce has also been included.

Beyond Biotechnology

Author : Craig Holdrege
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813138752
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Biotechnology written by Craig Holdrege and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001 the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully mapped the entire genetic content of human DNA. Scientists, politicians, theologians, and pundits speculated about what would follow, conjuring everything from nightmare scenarios of state-controlled eugenics to the hope of engineering disease-resistant newborns. As with debates surrounding stem-cell research, the seemingly endless possibilities of genetic engineering will continue to influence public opinion and policy into the foreseeable future. Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering distinguishes between the hype and reality of this technology and explains the nuanced and delicate relationship between science and nature. Authors Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott evaluate the current state of genetic science and examine its potential applications, particularly in agriculture and medicine, as well as the possible dangers. The authors show how the popular view of genetics does not include an understanding of the ways in which genes actually work together in organisms. Simplistic and reductionist views of genes lead to unrealistic expectations and, ultimately, disappointment in the results that genetic engineering actually delivers. The authors explore new developments in genetics, from the discovery of "non-Darwinian" adaptative mutations in bacteria to evidence that suggests that organisms are far more than mere collections of genetically driven mechanisms. While examining these issues, the authors also answer vital questions that get to the essence of genetic interaction with human biology: Does DNA "manage" an organism any more than the organism manages its DNA? Should genetically engineered products be labeled as such? Do the methods of the genetic engineer resemble the centuries-old practices of animal husbandry? Written for lay readers, Beyond Biotechnology is an accessible introduction to the complicated issues of genetic engineering and its potential applications. In the unexplored space between nature and laboratory, a new science is waiting to emerge. Technology-based social and environmental solutions will remain tenuous and at risk of reversal as long as our culture is alienated from the plants and animals on which all life depends.