The Resource Synthetic : how life got made, Sophia Roosth
Synthetic : how life got made, Sophia Roosth
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The item Synthetic : how life got made, Sophia Roosth represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
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- Summary
- "In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture: viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In Synthetic: How Life Got Made, cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. The first book-length ethnographic study of this discipline, Synthetic documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Roosth traces this new science from its origins at MIT to start-ups, laboratories, conferences, and hackers' garages across the United States--even to contemporary efforts to resurrect extinct species. Her careful research reveals that rather than opening up a limitless new field, these biologists' own experimental tactics circularly determine the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon. Exploring the life sciences emblematic of our time, Synthetic tells the origin story of the astonishing claim that biological making fosters biological knowing"--The publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 251 pages ):
- Contents
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- Synthetic Kingdom: Transgenic Kinship in the Postgenomic Era
- Interlude 3
- "To Make an Eye, a Hair, a Leaf"
- 3.
- Rebirth of the Author: New Life in Legal and Economic Circuits
- Interlude 4
- Much More than Human
- 4.
- Biotechnical Agnosticism: Fragmented Life and Labor among the Machines
- Interlude 5
- Machine generated contents note:
- What Comes Before
- 5.
- Life Makes Itself at Home: The Rise of Biohacking as Political Action
- Interlude 6
- Life Embryonic and Prophetic
- 6.
- Latter-Day Lazarus: Biological Salvage and Species Revival
- Interlude 1
- Plastic Fantastic
- 1.
- Life by Design: Evolution and Creation Tales in Synthetic Biology
- Interlude 2
- From Still Life to More Intense Life
- 2.
- Isbn
- 9780226440637
- Label
- Synthetic : how life got made
- Title
- Synthetic
- Title remainder
- how life got made
- Statement of responsibility
- Sophia Roosth
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques, these scientists treated biological media as elements for design and manufacture: viruses named for computers, bacterial genomes encoding passages from James Joyce, chimeric yeast buckling under the metabolic strain of genes harvested from wormwood, petunias, and microbes from Icelandic thermal pools. In Synthetic: How Life Got Made, cultural anthropologist Sophia Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. The first book-length ethnographic study of this discipline, Synthetic documents the social, cultural, rhetorical, economic, and imaginative transformations biology has undergone in the post-genomic age. Roosth traces this new science from its origins at MIT to start-ups, laboratories, conferences, and hackers' garages across the United States--even to contemporary efforts to resurrect extinct species. Her careful research reveals that rather than opening up a limitless new field, these biologists' own experimental tactics circularly determine the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon. Exploring the life sciences emblematic of our time, Synthetic tells the origin story of the astonishing claim that biological making fosters biological knowing"--The publisher
- Cataloging source
- NhCcYBP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roosth, Sophia
- Dewey number
- 660/.6509
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TA164
- LC item number
- .R66 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2017 D-213
- QT 36
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- ProQuest (Firm)
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Synthetic biology
- Bioengineering
- Synthetic Biology
- Bioengineering
- Label
- Synthetic : how life got made, Sophia Roosth
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Synthetic Kingdom: Transgenic Kinship in the Postgenomic Era
- Interlude 3
- "To Make an Eye, a Hair, a Leaf"
- 3.
- Rebirth of the Author: New Life in Legal and Economic Circuits
- Interlude 4
- Much More than Human
- 4.
- Biotechnical Agnosticism: Fragmented Life and Labor among the Machines
- Interlude 5
- Machine generated contents note:
- What Comes Before
- 5.
- Life Makes Itself at Home: The Rise of Biohacking as Political Action
- Interlude 6
- Life Embryonic and Prophetic
- 6.
- Latter-Day Lazarus: Biological Salvage and Species Revival
- Interlude 1
- Plastic Fantastic
- 1.
- Life by Design: Evolution and Creation Tales in Synthetic Biology
- Interlude 2
- From Still Life to More Intense Life
- 2.
- Control code
- MSTDDA4787539
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 251 pages ):
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226440637
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Synthetic : how life got made, Sophia Roosth
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Synthetic Kingdom: Transgenic Kinship in the Postgenomic Era
- Interlude 3
- "To Make an Eye, a Hair, a Leaf"
- 3.
- Rebirth of the Author: New Life in Legal and Economic Circuits
- Interlude 4
- Much More than Human
- 4.
- Biotechnical Agnosticism: Fragmented Life and Labor among the Machines
- Interlude 5
- Machine generated contents note:
- What Comes Before
- 5.
- Life Makes Itself at Home: The Rise of Biohacking as Political Action
- Interlude 6
- Life Embryonic and Prophetic
- 6.
- Latter-Day Lazarus: Biological Salvage and Species Revival
- Interlude 1
- Plastic Fantastic
- 1.
- Life by Design: Evolution and Creation Tales in Synthetic Biology
- Interlude 2
- From Still Life to More Intense Life
- 2.
- Control code
- MSTDDA4787539
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 251 pages ):
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780226440637
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
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