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A Brand New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created The First Genetically Engineered Animal
A Brand New Bird How Two Amateur Scientists Created The First Genetically Engineered Animal
Author: Tim Birkhead
Long before Dolly the Sheep or bioengineered corn, there was the Red Canary-the first organism to be manipulated by genetic technology, back in the 1920s. The effort to produce a red canary invoked all of the deep issues that troubled genetic engineering decades later: the nature of genes and how they work, the specter of eugenics, and the relat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465006656
ISBN-10: 0465006655
Publication Date: 8/19/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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