The biotech age : the business of biotech and how to profit from it / Richard W. Oliver.

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2003], ©2003.

xviii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes index.

Introduction : the bioterials century -- The twenty-first century : the age of bioterials -- Conquering matter : explorations in the cellular and subatomic universe -- Bioterials : the new economic engine -- The three laws of bioeconomics -- New materials : every atom a factory -- Designer genes : re-engineering the body -- Betting the "pharma" : the biomedical complex -- Betting the farm : the bionic farmer -- Financing the dream : the biocapitalists -- The war on genes : a global food fignt -- The DNA divide : the genetic haves versus the have-nots.