A unique, adaptable textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses emphasizing particular aspects of modern biotechnology.
- Features straightforward, jargon-free writing and extensive figures to help students make sense of complex biological systems and processes.
- Includes expanded coverage of the latest innovations in DNA sequencing techniques, therapeutics, vaccines, transgenic plants, and transgenic animals.
- Allows instructors to easily tailor the content to courses focusing on the fundamentals of biotechnology as well as courses dedicated to medical, agricultural, environmental, or industrial applications.
Completely revised and updated, this third edition of the best–selling Molecular Biotechnology covers both the underlying scientific prinicples and the wide–ranging industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications of recombinant DNA technology. Updated chapters reflect recent developments in biotechnology and the societal issues related to it, such as cloning, gene therapy, and patenting and releasing genetically engineered organisms. "Milestones" summarize important research papers in the history of biotechnology and their effects on the field.