Contents -- 1 A Tale of Good and a Tale of Evil -- A New Papaya -- Microbiological Terrorism -- 2 Framework of an Unfolding Revolution -- The Purview of Genetic Engineering -- Preliminary Genetic Background -- 3 Engineering Microbes -- Insulin Factories -- A Growth Industry -- Microbial Factories for Pharmaceutical Drugs -- More Industrious Microbes -- Accelerated, Directed Evolution -- Concluding Thoughts -- 4 Getting Creative with Crops -- Combating Corn Borers -- Insecticidal Cotton -- Defensins and Potato Famines -- Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans -- Herbicide-Resistant Weeds -- Terminator Technology -- Chloroplast Concoctions -- Alleviating Dietary Deficiencies: The Golden Rice Story -- Supplementing Dietary Supplements: Nutrient Boosts -- Going Bananas with Vaccines -- Plantibiotics and Pharmaceutical Farming -- Alleviating Allergies -- Plastics from Plants -- The Flavr Savr Tomato -- A Cornucopia of GM Products -- Concluding Thoughts -- 5 Genetic Engineering in the Barnyard -- Spider's Silk from Goat's Milk -- Low Phosphorus Enviropigs -- Mice as Basic Research Models -- Hello Dolly -- Cow Clones -- Barnyard Bioreactors -- Vaccinating for Animal Health -- Engineering Foods for Animals -- Cloned Organ-Donor Pigs -- Possibilities with Poultry -- Copy Cats -- Good-bye Dolly -- Concluding Thoughts -- 6 Fields, Forests, and Streams -- Pulp Nonfiction -- Antimalarial Mosquitoes -- Fat, Sexy Salmon -- Antifreeze Proteins -- Mutation-Detecting Fish -- Sentinels of Aquatic Pollution -- Transgenic Environmental Biosensors -- Phytoremediation of Mercury Poisons -- Phytoremediation of Organic Pollutants -- Salt and Drought Plants -- Bioremediating Bacteria -- Cries over Spilled Oil -- Rabbit Contraception -- Daughterless Carp -- Pesticide Detoxification -- Blue Rose Petals and a Mauve Carnation -- No-mow Lawns -- Sperm Whale Oils and Jojoba Waxes.

Rescuing Endangered Species -- Concluding Thoughts -- 7 Genetic Tinkering with Humans -- Gene Therapies on SCIDs -- Gene Therapies in the Works -- New Angles on Gene Therapy Vectors -- Tissue Therapy via Gene Therapy: The Angiogenesis Story -- Tissue Therapy via Therapeutic Cloning -- Embryonic Stem Cells -- More on Stem Cells -- Whole-Human Clones -- Engineering the Germline -- More New-Age Eugenics -- Concluding Thoughts -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Tools and Workshops of Genetic Engineering -- Restricted Activities -- Cut and Paste -- Copy and Duplicate -- Viral Vectors -- Jumping Genes -- Galls and Goals in Plant Transformation -- Promoting Promoters and Constructing Constructs -- Reporter Genes -- Test-Tube Gene Cloning -- Hybridizing DNA Molecules -- Knockouts and Resuscitations -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- X -- Y -- Z -- References and Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.