Unlike most biotechnology textbooks, Dr. David P. Clark's Biotechnology approaches modern biotechnology from a molecular basis, which grew out of the increasing biochemical understanding of physiology. Using straightforward, less-technical jargon, Clark manages to introduce each chapter with a basic concept that ultimately evolves into a more specific detailed principle. This up-to-date text covers a wide realm of topics, including forensics and bioethics, using colorful illustrations and concise applications.

This book will help readers understand molecular biotechnology as a scientific discipline, how the research in this area is conducted, and how this technology may impact the future.

· Up-to-date text focuses on modern biotechnology with a molecular foundation
· Basic concepts followed by more detailed, specific applications
· Clear, color illustrations of key topics and concepts
· Clearly written without overly technical jargon or complicated examples

Autorentext

David P. Clark did his graduate work on bacterial antibiotic resistance to earn his Ph.D. from Bristol University, in the West of England. During this time, he visited the British Government's biological warfare facility at Porton Down and was privileged to walk inside the (disused) Black Death fermenter. He later crossed the Atlantic to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and then the University of Illinois. David Clark recently retired from teaching Molecular Biology and Bacterial Physiology at Southern Illinois University which he joined in 1981. His research into the Regulation of Alcohol Fermentation in E. coli was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, from 1982 till 2007. From 1984-1991 he was also involved in a project to use genetically altered bacteria to remove contaminating sulfur from coal, jointly funded by the US Department of Energy and the Illinois Coal Development Board. In 1991 he received a Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship to work at Sheffield University, England while on sabbatical leave. He has supervised 11 master's and 7 PhD students and published approximately 70 articles in scientific journals. He has written or co-authored several textbooks, starting with Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun (with Lonnie Russell; (Cache River Press, First edition, 1997) which is now in its fourth edition. Other books are Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (both published by Elsevier) He recently wrote a popular science book, Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (2010, Financial Times Press/Pearson). David is unmarried, but his life is supervised by two cats, Little George and Mr Ralph.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 - Basics of Biotechnology
Chapter 2 - DNA, RNA, and Protein
Chapter 3 - Recombinant DNA Technology
Chapter 4 - DNA Synthesis In Vivo and In Vitro
Chapter 5 - RNA-Based Technologies
Chapter 6 - Immune Technology
Chapter 7 - Nanobiotechnology
Chapter 8 - Genomics and Gene Expression
Chapter 9: Proteomics
Chapter 10 - Recombinant Proteins
Chapter 11 - Protein Engineering
Chapter 12 - Environmental Biotechnology
Chapter 13 - Pathway Engineering
Chapter 14 - Transgenic Plants and Plant Biotechnology
Chapter 15 - Transgenic Animals
Chapter 16 - Inherited Defects
Chapter 17 - Gene Therapy
Chapter 18 - Molecular Biology of Cancer
Chapter 19 - Non-Infectious Diseases
Chapter 20 - Aging and Apoptosis
Chapter 21 - Bacterial Infections
Chapter 22 - Viral and Prion Infections
Chapter 23 - Biowarfare and Bioterrorism
Chapter 24 - Forensic Molecular Biology
Chapter 25 - Bioethics in Biotechnology