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Hardcover
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J. Craig Venter
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Yes
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United States
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First Edition
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ISBN
9780670025404
Book Title
Life at the Speed of Light : from the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
2013
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Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
J. Craig Venter
Genre
Science
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Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
15 oz
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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The renowned scientist and author of A Life Decoded examines the creation of life in the new field of synthetic genomics In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create "synthetic life"-putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the genetic code for designing new species to help us adapt and evolve for long-term survival. The science of synthetic genomics will have a profound impact on human existence, including chemical and energy generation, health, clean water and food production, environmental control, and possibly even our evolution. In Life at the Speed of Light , Venter presents a fascinating and authoritative study of this emerging field from the inside-detailing its origins, current challenges and controversies, and projected effects on our lives. This scientific frontier provides an opportunity to ponder anew the age-old question "What is life?" and examine what we really mean by "playing God." Life at the Speed of Light is a landmark work, written by a visionary at the dawn of a new era of biological engineering.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670025402
ISBN-13
9780670025404
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166661357

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Book Title
Life at the Speed of Light : from the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Author
J. Craig Venter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
15 oz

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Q175.5.V44 2013
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"When scientists finally succeed in transmitting to another galaxy the digital instructions for building a living organism, they will rely on science that Venter has pioneered.... Readers will thank Venter for an insider's perspective on epoch-making science." ~Booklist   "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly   "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier-not always easily understandable but well worth the effort." ~Kirkus Reviews   "One of the world's leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson's The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University   "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines   " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology.  Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists,  weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms.   It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft   "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter's research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA.  Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge."  ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "When scientists finally succeed in transmitting to another galaxy the digital instructions for building a living organism, they will rely on science that Venter has pioneered.... Readers will thank Venter for an insider's perspective on epoch-making science." ~Booklist   "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly   "[A] remarkable book." ~Scientific American   "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier-not always easily understandable but well worth the effort." ~Kirkus Reviews "A great read." ~Ricki Lewis, PhD, PLOS.org   "One of the world's leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson's The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University   "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines   " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology.  Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists,  weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms.   It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft   "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter's research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA.  Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge."  ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "When scientists finally succeed in transmitting to another galaxy the digital instructions for building a living organism, they will rely on science that Venter has pioneered.... Readers will thank Venter for an insider's perspective on epoch-making science." ~Booklist   "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly   "[A] remarkable book." ~Scientific American   "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier-not always easily understandable but well worth the effort." ~Kirkus Reviews   "One of the world's leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson's The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University   "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines   " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology.  Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists,  weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms.   It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft   "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter's research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA.  Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge."  ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "Life at the Speed of Light provides an important look behind the hyperbolic headlines that often accompany synthetic biology, a guide to the future of life from one of the scientists helping to create it." ~Emily Anthes, The Washington Post "When scientists finally succeed in transmitting to another galaxy the digital instructions for building a living organism, they will rely on science that Venter has pioneered.... Readers will thank Venter for an insider's perspective on epoch-making science." ~Booklist "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier." ~Kirkus Reviews "Craig Venter is a singular individual... at once inheritor of molecular biology's prior triumphs and the wellspring of its future…He compellingly depicts his diverse research as a concerted effort to shuttle biology between the material and the digital worlds…a gripping tale and welcome antidote to dry materials and methods sections that make such sagas feel disembodied and inevitable." ~Science "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly "[A] remarkable book." ~Scientific American "A great read." ~Ricki Lewis, PhD, PLOS.org "One of the world''s leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson''s The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing''s Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology. Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists, weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms. It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter''s research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA. Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge." ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "Life at the Speed of Light provides an important look behind the hyperbolic headlines that often accompany synthetic biology, a guide to the future of life from one of the scientists helping to create it." ~Emily Anthes, The Washington Post "When scientists finally succeed in transmitting to another galaxy the digital instructions for building a living organism, they will rely on science that Venter has pioneered.... Readers will thank Venter for an insider's perspective on epoch-making science." ~Booklist "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier." ~ Kirkus Reviews "Craig Venter is a singular individual... at once inheritor of molecular biology's prior triumphs and the wellspring of its future…He compellingly depicts his diverse research as a concerted effort to shuttle biology between the material and the digital worlds…a gripping tale and welcome antidote to dry materials and methods sections that make such sagas feel disembodied and inevitable." ~Science "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly "[A] remarkable book." ~Scientific American "A great read." ~Ricki Lewis, PhD, PLOS.org "One of the world''s leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson''s The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing''s Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology. Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists, weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms. It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter''s research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA. Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge." ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "One of the world's leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson's The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University   "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines   " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology.  Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists,  weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms.   It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft   "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter's research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA.  Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge."  ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "When scientists finally succeed in transmitting to another galaxy the digital instructions for building a living organism, they will rely on science that Venter has pioneered.... Readers will thank Venter for an insider's perspective on epoch-making science." ~Booklist "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier." ~ Kirkus "Craig Venter is a singular individual... at once inheritor of molecular biology's prior triumphs and the wellspring of its future…He compellingly depicts his diverse research as a concerted effort to shuttle biology between the material and the digital worlds…a gripping tale and welcome antidote to dry materials and methods sections that make such sagas feel disembodied and inevitable." ~Science "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly "[A] remarkable book." ~Scientific American "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier-not always easily understandable but well worth the effort." ~Kirkus Reviews "A great read." ~Ricki Lewis, PhD, PLOS.org "One of the world''s leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson''s The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing''s Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology. Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists, weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms. It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter''s research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA. Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge." ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, "Spellbinding stories from the frontiers of genomics.... Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in our hands." ~Publishers Weekly   "A fascinating glimpse at a scientific frontier-not always easily understandable but well worth the effort." ~Kirkus Reviews   "One of the world's leading scientists delivers a history of molecular biology and its many ramifications depicted as it has been and will continue to be, a creator of the golden age of modern biology. His style is that of a dispatch from the front, urgent and engaged, as only a participant could write it, and the best of its genre since James D. Watson's The Double Helix ." ~Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard University   "In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger asked the question "What is life?" Craig Venter decided to find out. The first step in understanding something is to take it apart. The next step is to put it back together. Finally, prove that you haven't neglected anything by building it yourself from scratch. In this articulate, precise, and uniquely first-person report from the front lines between biology and technology--commendably addressing the role of proteins as well as the nucleotides that code for them--Craig Venter sheds new light on Schrödinger's question, while explaining how his own pioneering work reading and writing genetic sequences between living cells and computers is enabling life as we know it to take the first steps toward becoming something else. A landmark account." ~George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines   " Life at the Speed of Light takes you to the frontier of science to explain the exciting potential of synthetic biology.  Craig Venter, one of our most vivid and iconoclastic scientists,  weaves the history of our understanding of life with his personal journey as one of the key scientists in decoding the human genome, and now one of the leaders of research into programming DNA and even making synthetic living organisms.   It could prove to be one of the most important technologies of this century." ~Nathan Myhrvold, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft   "Humanity is entering a period of radical transformation and one reason is due to Craig Venter's research in creating new life forms based on computer designed synthetic DNA.  Life at the Speed of Light is his beautifully written, powerful and persuasive story on how DNA information and computers will blend in the coming singularity, that watershed in the evolution of humanity beyond which amazing new possibilities for life, society and everything we care about will emerge."  ~Ray Kurzweil, author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity Is Near, Praise for J. Craig Venter: " [Venter is] not just trying to understand how life works; he's trying to make it work for him, and for us." - The Atlantic " [The] media has called Venter many things: maverick, publicity hound, risk-taker, brash, controversial, genius, manic, rebellious, visionary, audacious, arrogant, feisty, determined, provocative. His autobiography shows that they are all justified." - Nature " A Life Decoded offers a window into the life and mind of a scientist who . . . has indisputably become an extraordinary figure." - Science
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2013
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2013-017049
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303.48/3
Dewey Edition
23

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