Red Canary : The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal

Name: Red Canary
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781408847060
Price: 2700 KES
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ISBN: 9781408847060

by Tim Birkhead

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 140884706X

ISBN-13 9781408847060

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 30th, 2014

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 250 grams

Dimensions 13.20 x 19.60 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Popular science Genetics (non-medical)Zoology: birds (ornithology)Birds (ornithology)

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The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they paved the way for others to succeed when it was recognised that the canary needed to be both a product of nature and nurture. This highly original narrative, of huge contemporary relevance, reveals how the obsession with turning the wild canary from green to red heralded the exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.

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