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For years and years, we've toyed with this creature companions, mating puppies that herd and hunt, housecats that appear to be tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly inside our handbags. But what happens when we take creature alteration a step further, engineering a pet cat that glows inexperienced under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Research has given us a whole new toolbox for trying out life. How are we utilizing it? In Frankenstein's Feline, journalist Emily Anthes will take us from petri dish to pet store as she explores how biotechnology is shaping the continuing future of our furry and feathered friends. As she ventures from bucolic barnyards to a "iced zoo" where researchers are keeping DNA from the planet's most amazing creatures, she discovers how we may use cloning to protect endangered species, build prosthetics to save lots of injured animals, and employ genetic engineering to supply farms with disease-resistant livestock. On the way, we meet a few of the animals that are ushering in this amazing age of augmentation, including sensor-wearing seals, cyborg beetles, a bionic bulldog, and the world's first cloned pet cat. Through her encounters with researchers, conservationists, ethicists, and entrepreneurs, Anthes shows that although some of our own interventions may be trivial (behold: the GloFish), others could improve the lives of several kinds - including our very own. So what does biotechnology really imply for the world's outrageous things? And what do our brave new beasts reveal about ourselves? With keen perception and her trademark spunk, Anthes highlights both the peril and the guarantee of our clinical superpowers, taking us with an adventure into a world where our grandest technology fiction fantasies are fast becoming fact.

Category: Biotechnology

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Publisher	Tantor Audio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2013-06
Author	Emily Anthes

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