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  • Regulating Health Foods

    Policy Challenges and Consumer Conundrums

    by Jill E. Hobbs, Stavroula Malla, Eric K. Sogah, May T. Yeung ...
    With ageing populations, rising incomes and a growing recognition of the link between diet and health, consumers are interested in new food products, supplements and ingredients with purported health benefits. The food industry has responded with new food innovations, formulations and enhancements that comprise the growing health food market, manifesting the need to design regulatory frameworks to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • International Regulation of Gene Editing Technologies in Crops

    Current Status and Future Trends

    by Lisa F. Clark, Jill E. Hobbs ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
    This open access book analyzes the regulation and governance of gene editing in the global agrifood system as applications of gene editing, regulations and the intellectual property landscape continue to evolve. The primary focus of the manuscript is the dynamic interactions between regulatory frameworks and agricultural applications of gene editing in plant breeding. The goal is to give readers a ... Read more

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  • Hacking Darwin

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

    by Jamie Metzl ...
    "A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." — Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneA groundbreaking exploration of genetic engineering and its impact on the future of our species from leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist, ... Read more

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  • The Genesis Machine

    Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    by Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies.The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity’s existential challenges from climate change, to the health and feeding of millions, to fighting the next viral outbreak before it becomes a global pandemic.A promising and controversial science that combines biology and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Superconvergence

    How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World

    by Jamie Metzl ...
    From a leading futurist and OneShared.World founder, a "brilliant" book that explores how artificial intelligence and other revolutionary technologies are transforming our lives–and our future (Sanjay Gupta).New technologies have the potential to improve our health, feed billions of people, supercharge our economies, store essential information for millions of years, and save our planet. But if we ... Read more

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  • CRISPR People

    The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

    by Henry T. Greely ...
    A leading authority on the scientific, ethical, and legal aspects of genetic biotechnologies asks: What does the birth of gene-edited babies mean—for science and for all of us?“An accessible, clearly written, fact-filled analysis of a new biological frontier.” —The Washington PostIn November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Ethics of Invention

    Technology and the Human Future

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Hacking the Code of Life

    How gene editing will rewrite our futures

    by Nessa Carey ...
    Series series Hot Science
    'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over twin girls born in China with genetic changes deliberately introduced by scientists - changes they will pass on to their own offspring.Genetic modification (GM) has been with us for 45 years now, but ... Read more

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  • The Grandest Challenge

    Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village

    by Abdallah Daar, Peter A. Singer ...
    The health-sciences equivalent of Thomas Friedman's bestseller The World is Flat, this inspiring and revelatory book by two of today's finest scientists shows how advances in global health will transform lives -- particularly in the developing world -- over the next decade.The Grandest Challenge begins with a simple premise: that every person's life is of equal value, regardless of where in the ... Read more

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  • Deadly Monopolies

    The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.

    by Harriet A. Washington ...
    From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many ... Read more

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  • Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy

    A Global Citizens Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture

    by Navdanya International ...
    As the world’s billionaire class reaps record profits and global inequalities further divide nations and communities, this anthology compiled by renown activist Dr. Vandana Shiva pulls back the curtain on how ruthless capitalistic exploitation branded as philanthropic altruism forges a direct path to global destruction.Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Demo**cracy: A Global Citizens’ Report ... Read more

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  • The GMO Deception

    What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk

    Edited by Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber ...
    Seventy-five percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves-from soda to soup, crackers to condiments-contain genetically engineered ingredients. The long-term effects of these foods on human health and ecology are still unknown, and public concern has been steadily intensifying.This new book from the Council for Responsible Genetics gathers the best, most thought-provoking essays by the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD