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基本説明
Contents: No Wrinkles Through Biotechnology?; Breast Milk of Civilization; The Roaring Little Mouse; Expensive and Often Useless; Degradable Computer!; Hanging on to Hangovers; and more.
Full Description
"Science is fun!" Is the motto of this fun-filled book by Prof Reinhard Renneberg. Cartoonists Manfred Bofinger (Germany) and Ming Fai Chow (Hong Kong) here together with Prof Renneberg, created a fireworks of stories with funny cartoons, which are easily digestable for the layman reader but at the same time will interest even the specialists. Through this collection of inspirational short stories, you will get a complete picture of the latest advances in modern biotechnology with no technical jargons, no equations and no animals harmed!
Contents
Will Biotech Banish Wrinkles Forever? The Breast Milk of Civilization. The Little Roaring Mouse. Expensive and Often Useless. Computers on the Compost Heap. Hanging on to Hangovers. How Fidel Saved US Biotech. Killing Nemo. 007 and the Soup Stock. Glow, Little Fish, Glow! Aspartame: Nothing but Sweetness. "Irasshaimase, Baioteku". Vitamin C and the Fly. Magic Bullets Against Cancer. Helping Hands for Your Heart. Nights on the Highway. Doping? No, caterpillar fungus!. Running Out of Phosphate. Snowmax for the Alps? Praise for the Papaya. Biochemical Bird Market. One Pill for (Almost) Everything? Sterilized to Perfection. A Tale about a Cold. Biotech at the Barber's? Just as Long as It Catches Mice! Even Bacteria Grow Old. Give Us This Day Our Daily... Mushroom. The Moldy Monopoly. Finding the Fountain of Youth. Hong Kong and the Bird Flu. The Gene Off Switch. Going to the Dogs? Flipper Gets Artificially Fertilized. Heavily Toxic. Smart Medicines. Digital Intestinal Bacteria. Tamiflu Fever in Hong Kong. Save the Wild Birds! Depression from Antidepressants? Mussel Extract Takes On Vioxx®. Clone Trees That Glow in the Dark. A Brief History of Ecstasy. Snuppy, Made in Korea. Molecular Laundresses. My Own Private Genome? Goethe and the Caffeine. The Cats and the Bird Flu. Malaria on the Ropes. Blue Jeans Bacteria Blues. Academic Dog-Catching. Fighting Infection with Beer. The Secret of the Sour Barrels. The "Red" Crystallographer. Pasteur, Evildoer. The Oil Guzzlers Are Coming. Antibiotic Stinky White Fungus. Praising Ginger. Litmus and Hemp. Another Spoonful of Red Wine? DNA Caps. Take the Old One. Was Mozart's Starling a Composer? Much Smoke about the Heart. From Resignation to WHO. "West Gelman" Eggs for Sale! DNA and My Ancestors. The Chinese also Come from Africa. Tanking Up with Corn. Competition Is Good for Business. Amino Acids, not Made in Japan! Busy Bees: It's All in Their Genes! Leeuwenhoek's Wee Beasties. Genetic Engineering in Your Washer. Yams and Cortisone. Xylophagy in My Bookcase. DNA Gunshots into the Sea. Genetic Fingerprints. Biofuel from Wood? Microbesoft?
