May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
17h 56m
English
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Foreword
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
The domestication of independently living cells to serve human needs is a major goal of biotechnology. Over millions of years of evolution, cells from archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryotic origin have evolved sophisticated capabilities that, if harnessed, could advance the treatment of human disease, produce carbon neutral fuels, and detect environmental agents of risk to human health. Already, cultured cells have been integrated into high-scale production systems for biotherapeutics. They are the workhorses of high-throughput ...