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Dan Kolis
Jul 6, 2025, 12:29:19 PMJul 6
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This book is considerably miss-titled. "Biotechnology for Beginners" is a very good, near referencey like paper book, as below.
I can't really account for the horror of the title, except: "Publisher kicked my ass, they forced me". And it's a translitteration from a cute German title which certainly is more accurate to the native reader.
Republished copy i have is Year: 2023, Third addition. Liberally illustrated, 450 page faces "trade sized".
The collaboration is a 50/50 mix of "how this thing came to be" and actual technology of biochem as applied to direct human desires. This is:
VERY DIVERGENT from the usual "Nearly Pissed myself, this is so exciting, nothing else in life matters". The usual sub story concept in these books.
This leans into the technology as opposed to the science of decades of biotech innovations and people. It is unusually short of lexicons of support material, and as a published work has significant flaws. But also unusual scope. I mean, attention to fixes for heart attacks and strokes, dying textiles, Vet and phama, but not obsessed with who got there billion and who didn't...
It's a fine mix of pure overview of what causes what in the real world, interesting interactions on cells, and 'other'.
The slight miss in it as a published item saddens me slightly. So much excellence, with a few glaring design errors. I smell a "MAKE IT SELL BY THE NUMBERS" editor someplace, I mean, a hidden boss in the back office.
However, I am very sure it has revealed facts of all sorts you don't know. Getting projects out of the > 1mg wetlab and into the 2000 L tank has a lot of things-to-do besides line up for a Nobel prize.
Biotechnology for Beginners
My option is: a FINE item, serious, interesting an well written. If you decide to jump in with cohorts and write a book, if you like you might benefit from my bag-o-rocks on it as a finished item. Say it here.
BLURBS all heavy pant: "GREAT SALES", etc no surprise. I'm not super interested in that. Worth a library borrow or a bookstore buy. the real allocation is your attention span, which will likely take a fine, full hookup for a sizable portion of it.
Regards,
Daniel B. Kolis
I can't really account for the horror of the title, except: "Publisher kicked my ass, they forced me". And it's a translitteration from a cute German title which certainly is more accurate to the native reader.
Republished copy i have is Year: 2023, Third addition. Liberally illustrated, 450 page faces "trade sized".
The collaboration is a 50/50 mix of "how this thing came to be" and actual technology of biochem as applied to direct human desires. This is:
VERY DIVERGENT from the usual "Nearly Pissed myself, this is so exciting, nothing else in life matters". The usual sub story concept in these books.
This leans into the technology as opposed to the science of decades of biotech innovations and people. It is unusually short of lexicons of support material, and as a published work has significant flaws. But also unusual scope. I mean, attention to fixes for heart attacks and strokes, dying textiles, Vet and phama, but not obsessed with who got there billion and who didn't...
It's a fine mix of pure overview of what causes what in the real world, interesting interactions on cells, and 'other'.
The slight miss in it as a published item saddens me slightly. So much excellence, with a few glaring design errors. I smell a "MAKE IT SELL BY THE NUMBERS" editor someplace, I mean, a hidden boss in the back office.
However, I am very sure it has revealed facts of all sorts you don't know. Getting projects out of the > 1mg wetlab and into the 2000 L tank has a lot of things-to-do besides line up for a Nobel prize.
Biotechnology for Beginners
- Publisher : Academic Press
- Publication date : Feb. 8 2023
- Edition : 3rd
- Language : English
- Print length : 474 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0323855695
- ISBN-13 : 978-0323855693
- Dimensions : 21.59 x 2.29 x 27.69 cm
My option is: a FINE item, serious, interesting an well written. If you decide to jump in with cohorts and write a book, if you like you might benefit from my bag-o-rocks on it as a finished item. Say it here.
BLURBS all heavy pant: "GREAT SALES", etc no surprise. I'm not super interested in that. Worth a library borrow or a bookstore buy. the real allocation is your attention span, which will likely take a fine, full hookup for a sizable portion of it.
Regards,
Daniel B. Kolis
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