Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HD 9999 .B443 U6176 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 601324 |
HD 9999 .B442 P57 2006 Science business : the promise, the reality, and the future of biotech / | HD 9999 .B442 R62 2000 From alchemy to IPO : the business of biotechnology / | HD 9999 .B442 T453 2005 The global genome : biotechnology, politics, and culture / | HD 9999 .B443 U6176 2001 Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food / | HD 9999 .C947 S76 2010 Soft innovation : economics, product aesthetics, and the creative industries / | HD 9999 .C9472 H47 2011 Creative labour : media work in three cultural industries / | HD 9999 .C9472 L48 2011 Free ride : how digital parasites are destroying the culture business, and how the culture business can fight back / |
Includes bibliographical references (p.315-328) and index.
Once confined to the research laboratory, the genetic engineering of plants is now a big business that is changing the face of modern agriculture. Giant corporations are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to plants that act as miniature drug factories, churning out everything from vaccines to insulin. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers, more productive agriculture-even an end to world hunger. But the vision has a dark side,..._FROM GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH
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