Globalization, biosecurity, and the future of the life sciences:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press c2006
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Executive summary -- Framing the issue -- Committee charge and process -- Emerging technologies in the life sciences -- Notable features of technological growth in the life sciences -- Definitions -- 20th century germ-based biowarfare -- Beating nature: is it possible to engineer a "better pathogen" -- Natural threats, the evolution of pathogenicity: what does it take to cause disease? -- The importance of the host response -- Advancing technologies will alter the future threat spectrum -- The development and use of biological weapons -- Biological weapons are fundamentally different from other "weapons of mass destruction" -- The "arms race" metaphor and the difficult issue of secrecy -- The need to strike a balance: benefits of technological growth -- The dual-use dilemma -- Committee process -- Report road map
Global drivers and trajectories of advanced life science technologies -- The global marketplace -- The Pharmaceutical industry -- Global growth of the biotechnology industry -- The Fledgling nanobiotechnology industry -- Agricultural biotechnology -- Industrial biotechnology -- Biodefense -- Global dispersion of knowledge -- Global Scientific productivity -- Global growth in biotech patent activity -- Information technology -- Global dispersion of people -- Trends in higher education -- Snapshot of the global technology landscape -- East Asia and the Pacific -- Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- South Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa
Advances in technologies with relevance to biology: the future landscape -- A classification scheme for biological technologies -- Acquisition of novel biological or molecular diversity --DNA synthesis -- DNA shuffling -- Bioprospecting -- Combinatorial chemistry: generating chemical diversity -- High throughput screening -- Directed design -- Rational drug design -- Synthetic biology -- Genetic engineering of viruses -- Understanding and manipulating biological systems -- RNA interference -- High affinity binding reagents (aptamers and tadpoles) -- Computational biology and bioinformatics -- Systems biology -- Genomic medicine -- Modulators of homeostatic systems -- Production, delivery and packaging -- Plants as production platforms: "biopharming" -- Microfluidics and microfabrication -- Nanotechnology -- Aerosol technology -- Microencapsulation technology -- Gene therapy technologies -- Targeting biologically active materials to specific locations in the body -- The complementarity and synergy of technologies -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendixes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 299 p.)
ISBN:0309101182
0309654181
0309657547
9780309101189
9780309654180
9780309657549

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