Genetic Engineering

by David Rhodes

Genetic engineering is the science of using biotechnology to modify and improve organisms and enhance their characteristics. This field produces genetically modified organisms (GMOs), genetically modified food and genetically modified crops. It incorporates techniques like DNA sequence, gene transfer, genome editing, gene therapy, etc. This book includes contributions of experts and scientists which will provide innovative insights into this field. It also provides interesting topics for research which readers can take up. Different approaches, evaluations, methodologies and advanced studies on genetic engineering have been included in it. Scientists and students actively engaged in this subject will find this text full of crucial and unexplored concepts.

Unknown Binding

First published January 28, 2015

About the author

As a young man, David Rhodes worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa. After receiving an MFA in Writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1971, he published three acclaimed novels: The Last Fair Deal Going Down (1972), The Easter House (1974), and Rock Island Line (1975). In 1976, a motorcycle accident left him partially paralyzed. In 2008, Rhodes returned to the literary scene with Driftless, a novel that was hailed as "the best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years" (Alan Cheuse). Following the publication of Driftless, Rhodes was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, to support the writing of Jewelweed, his newest novel. He lives with his wife, Edna, in Wisconsin.

“Rhodes proves that there is still vigorous life in the dark Gothic roots of great American novels.”

—Peter W. Jordan, The Tennessean