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Title Page

Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis

Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?

Dedication

Contents at a Glance

Contents

Praise for Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100

Foreword

Preface

1. Living well beyond 100

2. A short history of biomedicine

3. Snapshot of the biosciences

4. Bio-driven convergence

5. The business of biomedicine

6. Healthcare under stress

7. Wildcards for the future

8. Scenarios up to 2025

9. What it all means

A. DNA, RNA, and protein

Molecules of inheritance

The structure of DNA

Cracking the code

Making proteins

Regulating gene expression

Endnotes

B. Cloning genes

C. Complexity of the genome

Glossary of Biomedical Terms

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Index

Financial Times Press

It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick

City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11

Endnotes

¹F. H. Portugal and J. S. Cohen, A Century of DNA: A History of the Discovery of the Structure and Function of the Genetic Substance (Boston: MIT Press, 1979).

²An isotope is one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number, but with different numbers of neutrons and different molecular weights.

³James D. Watson, DNA: The Secret of Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).

⁴Gerald Karp, Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

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