11 Race to a Vaccine

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Introduction 1
4. I BEGINNINGS
5. 1 A Glass of Absinthe: A Malaria Medicine 13
6. 2 A Radical Philosophy 31
7. 3 Pandora’s Box: The Triumph and Temptation of Gene Editing 50
8. 4 The Silk Road: Directing Evolution 68
9. 5 Wild: Remaking Life 87
10. II RIPPLES IN THE WATER
11. 6 Rush: Biology-Made Medicines 109
12. 7 New Nature: A Do-It-Yourself Environment 128
13. 8 Hearth and Home 147
14. 9 Fantastic Voyages: Mining and the Military 166
15. 10 The Killers: Viruses as Healers 182
16. III BIOINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
17. 11 Race to a Vaccine 201
18. 12 Global Production: Perils and Profits of a New Science 219
19. 13 The Moirai’s Gift 236
20. 14 To the Planets and Beyond: Synthetic Biology in Space 254
21. 15 Futurama 270
22. Acknowledgments 293
23. Timeline 297
24. Glossary 301
25. Further Reading 305
26. Notes 307
27. Index 353