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  • What Is Life?

    Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    by Ed Regis ...
    In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he argued that life was not a mysterious or inexplicable phenomenon, as many people believed, but a scientific process like any other, ultimately explainable by the laws of physics and chemistry.Today, more than sixty years later, members of a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Starbound

    Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible

    by Ed Regis ...
    This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage 'to the stars.' From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian

    The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program

    by Ed Regis ...
    This is the story of how the Smithsonian Institute became intertwined in a secret biological warfare project. During the 1960s, the Smithsonian Institution undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific. It was one of the largest and most sweeping biological survey programs of all time, a six-year-long enterprise during which Smithsonian ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Golden Rice

    The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood

    by Ed Regis ...
    The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in developing countries—if only they were allowed to grow it.Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor; it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    Regenesis

    How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

    by George M. Church, Ed Regis ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Virus Ground Zero

    by Ed Regis ...
    Narrated by Rob McQuay ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    In a destitute hospital in the crowded African city of Kikwit, townspeople, nurses, and doctors are dying of a gruesome disease at the rate of more than a dozen a day. Zaire is on the brink of an explosive epidemic - but the outbreak is stopped when experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta arrive in the city, reclaim the hospital, and interrupt the chain of virus transmission. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD