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Globalization, biosecurity, and the future of the life sciences
Title
Globalization, biosecurity, and the future of the life sciences / Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats, Development, Security, and Cooperation Policy and Global Affairs Division, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.
ISBN
0309101182 (prepub)
0309100321 (pbk)
0309657547 (pdf)
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
Cataloged from the prepublication edition.
Other formats
Also available on the Internet.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 12, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Partial contents
Framing the issue
Committee charge and process
Emerging technologies in the life sciences
Notable features of technological growth in the life sciences
definitions
20th century germ-based biowarfare
Beating nature: is it possible to engineer a better pathogen
Natural treats The evolution of pathogenicity: what does it take to cause disease?
The importance of the host response
Advancing technologies will alter the future threat spectrum
The development and use of biological weapons
Biological weapons are fundamentally different from other weapons of mass destruction
The arms race metaphor and the difficult issue of secrecy
The need to strike a balance: benefits of technological growth
The dual-use dilemma
Committee process
Report road map.
Global drivers and trajectories of advanced life science technologies
The global marketplace
The Pharmaceutical industry
Global growth of the biotechnology industry
The Fledgling nanobiotechnology industry
Agricultural biotechnology
Industrial biotechnology
Biodefense
Global dispersion of knowledge
Global Scientific productivity
Global growth in biotech patent activity
Information technology
Global dispersion of people
Trends in higher education
Snapshot of the global technology landscape
East Asia and the Pacific
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Middle East and North Africa
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Advances in technologies with relevance to biology: the future landscape
A classification scheme for biological technologies
Acquisition of novel biological or molecular diversity
DNA synthesis
DNA shuffling
Bioprospecting
Combinatorial chemistry: generating chemical diversity
High throughput screening
Directed design
Rational drug design
Synthetic biology
Genetic engineering of viruses
Understanding and manipulating biological systems
RNA interference (RNAi)
High affinity binding reagents (Aptamers and tadpoles)
Computational biology and bioinformatics
Systems biology
Genomic medicine
Modulators of homeostatic systems
Production, delivery and packaging
Plants as production platforms (Biopharming)
Microfluidics and microfabrication
Nanotechnology
Aerosol technology
Microencapsulation technology
Gene therapy technologies
Targeting biologically-active materials to specific locations within the body
The complementarity and synergy of technologies
Conclusions and recommendations.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats.
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