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Written by a pioneer and authority, this invaluable book covers all the key aspects and current affairs in the field of biotechnology, with topics ranging from genome projects, through animal and human cloning, to biowarfare.As an academic-turned-entrepreneur, the author is at ease in providing vivid firsthand accounts from both the scientific and the business perspective.This book is addressed primarily to experts and professionals who are very busy but who wish to gain insights through a different and comprehensive perspective of this important field. It is also aimed at laypeople who are interested in learning more about bioinformatics, and the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries.The book is also ideal as an easy-to-read supplementary reference in classrooms. Each chapter is self-contained and footnotes provide further references for interested readers.Contents: The Genome Project: Its Impacts and ImplicationsPost-Genomics Matters: Send Out a Thousand Ships, Not Catalogue a Thousand GenesAgBiotechnology: Genetically ModifiedAqua BiotechnologyClonology and ClonetechnologyPet Cloning and BioFactoryHuman Cloning and Stem Cell ResearchGenomic and Proteomic Technologies and BeyondSubmicron Technology and NanotechnologyPatentability in BiotechnologyBiological and Biology-Related Information as a Commodity and the Rise of BioinformaticsTurbo-Charging Bioinformation for Drug DiscoveryA New Kind of War: Biowarfare and Info WarfareTwo Decades of Biotechnology and a Decade of BioinformaticsReadership: Researchers in biotechnology, bioinformatics, genetics, fish and marine biology; workers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; lay people.

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