WHO CLONED MY CAT?
Fun Adventures in Biotechnology

by Reinhard Renneberg (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

"Science is fun!" Is the motto of this fun-filled book by Prof Reinhard Renneberg. Do you know that in Japan, washing machines have no "cooking program" thanks to enzyme detergents? How to make German-style beer from rice? How do you make real snow with dead frost-bacteria? Is using bio-ethanol as a car fuel going against our environment? How can you clone your neighbor's beautiful cat? How to eliminate breast cancer genes before a baby girl is born? Can the financial crisis be solved by breeding better stock market traders? How to measure the fitness of students? The questions are endless.

Cartoonists Manfred Bofinger (Germany) and Ming Fai Chow (Hong Kong) here together with Prof Renneberg, created a fireworks of stories with funny cartoons, which are easily digestable for the layman reader but at the same time will interest even the specialists. Through this collection of inspirational short stories, you will get a complete picture of the latest advances in modern biotechnology with no technical jargons, no equations and no animals harmed!

Contents:

• No Wrinkles Through Biotechnology?
• Breast Milk of Civilization
• The Roaring Little Mouse
• Expensive and Often Useless
• Degradable Computer!
• Hanging on to Hangovers
• Fidel Saved US Biotechnology
• Who Kill Nemo?
• 007 and the Soup Stock
• Glow, Little Fish, Glow!
• Aspartame — Nothing but Sweetness
• Irasshaimase, Baioteku
• The Fly and the Vitamin C
• Magic Bullets Targeting Cancer
• Help for the Heart

Readership: Interested laypersons wanting to know more about the front-edge subject of biotechnology and to be entertained and amused at the same time, students, lecturers and experts in the sciences, and school teachers and pupils looking for entertaining reading.

"In this fascinating short stories, featuring the distinctive cartoons of Manfred Bofinger and Ming Fai Chow, we learn a lot! For example, the spread of bird flu is very likely not be carried out on wild birds, but that there are clear links with poultry shipments there. Incidentally, did you know already that the first biotechnology in the world in the manufacture of beer - the 'milk of civilization' - was? Even the Babylonians mastered the art of brewing. They appreciated the nutritious juice is so high that a brewer in the war had to stay home, so that the replenishment was secured. A compendium of biotechnology in everyday life, therefore, competent in his scientific and historical statements, masterly in execution and in humorous words and pictures. This makes science fun!"

Prof. G¨šnter Kröber

250pp (approx.)		Scheduled Summer 2010
978-981-4267-65-6		US$24.95