Biotechnology: Applying the Genetic Revolution

Unlike most biotechnology textbooks, Dr. David P. Clark's Biotechnology approaches modern biotechnology from a molecular basis, which grew out of the increasing biochemical understanding of physiology. Using straightforward, less-technical jargon, Clark manages to introduce each chapter with a basic concept that ultimately evolves into a more specific detailed principle. This up-to-date text covers a wide realm of topics, including forensics and bioethics, using colorful illustrations and concise applications.This book will help readers understand molecular biotechnology as a scientific discipline, how the research in this area is conducted, and how this technology may impact the future.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 – Basics of Biotechnology Chapter 2 – DNA, RNA, and Protein Chapter 3 - Recombinant DNA Technology Chapter 4 - DNA Synthesis In Vivo and In Vitro Chapter 5 - RNA-Based Technologies Chapter 6 – Immune Technology Chapter 7 – Nanobiotechnology Chapter 8 - Genomics and Gene Expression Chapter 9: Proteomics Chapter 10 – Recombinant Proteins Chapter 11 – Protein Engineering Chapter 12 - Environmental Biotechnology Chapter 13 – Pathway Engineering Chapter 14 – Transgenic Plants and Plant Biotechnology Chapter 15 – Transgenic Animals Chapter 16 – Inherited Defects Chapter 17 – Gene Therapy Chapter 18 – Molecular Biology of Cancer Chapter 19 – Non-Infectious Diseases Chapter 20 – Aging and Apoptosis Chapter 21 – Bacterial Infections Chapter 22 – Viral and Prion Infections Chapter 23 – Biowarfare and Bioterrorism Chapter 24 – Forensic Molecular Biology Chapter 25 – Bioethics in Biotechnology

About the Author :
David P. Clark did his graduate work on bacterial antibiotic resistance to earn his Ph.D. from Bristol University, England. He later crossed the Atlantic to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and then the University of Illinois. Dr Clark recently retired from teaching Molecular Biology and Bacterial Physiology at Southern Illinois University which he joined in 1981. His research into the Regulation of Alcohol Fermentation in E. coli was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, from 1982 till 2007. In 1991 he received a Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship to work at Sheffield University, England while on sabbatical leave. Nanette J. Pazdernik has devoted her career to the understanding of molecular biology and biotechnology, and then disseminating that knowledge by writing and teaching. She is a co-author of Biotechnology, 2nd edition and Molecular Biology, 3rd edition, with Dr. David P. Clark and Dr. Michelle McGehee. Both the second and third edition of Molecular Biology won a Texty award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association. She has taught courses in General Biology, Genetics, as well as Anatomy and Physiology at Southwestern Illinois College, McKendree University, and Harris-Stowe University. She received her BA in Biology from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and her PhD in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics from the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral thesis studied protein structure-function relationships. Following her degrees, she investigated the signal transduction pathways that control apoptosis and immunity at Indiana University School of Medicine. In a second post-doctoral position, she studied the various molecules that maintain the stem cell niche in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. Currently, Dr. Pazdernik works in the biotech industry as a scientific writer.