Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Chapter 1 Will Biotech Banish Wrinkles Forever? 1
Chapter 2 The Breast Milk of Civilization 3
Chapter 3 The Little Roaring Mouse 5
Chapter 4 Expensive and Often Useless 7
Chapter 5 Computers on the Compost Heap 9
Chapter 6 Hanging on to Hangovers 11
Chapter 7 How Fidel Saved US Biotech 13
Chapter 8 Killing Nemo 15
Chapter 9 007 and the Soup Stock 17
Chapter 10 Glow, Little Fish, Glow! 19
Chapter 11 Aspartame: Nothing but Sweetness 23
Chapter 12 "Irasshaimase, Baioteku" 25
Chapter 13 Vitamin C and the Fly 27
Chapter 14 Magic Bullets Against Cancer 29
Chapter 15 Helping Hands for Your Heart 31
Chapter 16 Nights on the Highway 33
Chapter 17 Doping? No, caterpillar fungus! 35
Chapter 18 Running Out of Phosphate 37
Chapter 19 Snowmax for the Alps? 41
Chapter 20 Praise for the Papaya 43
Chapter 21 Biochemical Bird Market 45
Chapter 22 One Pill for (Almost) Everything? 47
Chapter 23 Sterilized to Perfection 49
Chapter 24 A Tale About a Cold 51
Chapter 25 Biotech at the Barber's? 53
Chapter 26 Just as Long as It Catches Mice! 55
Chapter 27 Even Bacteria Grow Old 57
Chapter 28 Give Us This Day Our Daily...Mushroom 59
Chapter 29 The Moldy Monopoly 63
Chapter 30 Finding the Fountain of Youth 65
Chapter 31 Hong Kong and the Bird Flu 67
Chapter 32 The Gene Off Switch 69
Chapter 33 Going to the Dogs? 71
Chapter 34 Flipper Gets Artificially Fertilized 73
Chapter 35 Heavily Toxic 75
Chapter 36 Smart Medicines 77
Chapter 37 Digital Intestinal Bacteria 79
Chapter 38 Tamiflu Fever in Hong Kong 81
Chapter 39 Save the Wild Birds! 83
Chapter 40 Depression from Antidepressants? 85
Chapter 41 Mussel Extract Takes On Vioxx® 87
Chapter 42 Clone Trees That Glow in the Dark 89
Chapter 43 A Brief History of Ecstasy 91
Chapter 44 Snuppy, Made in Korea 93
Chapter 45 Molecular Laundresses 95
Chapter 46 My Own Private Genome? 97
Chapter 47 Goethe and the Caffeine 99
Chapter 48 The Cats and the Bird Flu 101
Chapter 49 Malaria on the Ropes 105
Chapter 50 Blue Jeans Bacteria Blues 109
Chapter 51 Academic Dog-Catching 111
Chapter 52 Fighting Infection with Beer 115
Chapter 53 The Secret of the Sour Barrels 117
Chapter 54 The "Red" Crystallographer 119
Chapter 55 Pasteur, Evildoer 121
Chapter 56 The Oil Guzzlers Are Coming 123
Chapter 57 Antibiotic Stinky White Fungus 125
Chapter 58 Praising Ginger 127
Chapter 59 Litmus and Hemp 131
Chapter 60 Another Spoonful of Red Wine? 133
Chapter 61 DNA Caps 135
Chapter 62 Take the Old One 137
Chapter 63 Was Mozart's Starling a Composer? 139
Chapter 64 Much Smoke About the Heart 141
Chapter 65 From Resignation to WHO 143
Chapter 66 "West Gelman" Eggs for Sale! 145
Chapter 67 DNA and My Ancestors 147
Chapter 68 The Chinese also Come from Africa 149
