Genetics

One of the main challenges for conservation today is monitoring and understanding changes in biodiversity. Genetic diversity provides the foundation for biodiversity and is necessary for long-term survival, adaptation, and resilience not only for individuals, but also for populations, species, and entire ecosystems. Monitoring genetic diversity across different time points is a first step to gain insight into the extent to which populations or species might be at risk, to guide conservation action and to provide evidence for solutions.

This publication explores the epic marriage between computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic transition into the Age of Biotechnology. Already, our economy is experiencing a massive shift away from the Industrial Age and into an era in which giant life-science corporations are fashioning a bio-industrial world. Humanity is on the brink of wielding greater control over the biology of life -- how we are born; how our food is created; the traites our children may have -- than has ever been imagined.