88 books
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Biotech Books
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis)
by (shelved 46 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.97 — 914 ratings — published 2009
The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,161 ratings — published
For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,756 ratings — published
Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.90 — 163 ratings — published 2008
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,115 ratings — published 2021
The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.67 — 325 ratings — published 2014
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,262 ratings — published 2012
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,628 ratings — published 2018
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.35 — 57,072 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.13 — 817,930 ratings — published 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,622 ratings — published 2010
The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.10 — 300 ratings — published
Biotechnology (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.77 — 314 ratings — published 2003
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,321 ratings — published 1999
Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,283 ratings — published 2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,612 ratings — published 2017
Borne (Borne, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,200 ratings — published 2017
Building Backwards to Biotech: The Power of Entrepreneurship to Drive Cutting-Edge Science to Market (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.35 — 130 ratings — published
Her-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.07 — 309 ratings — published 1998
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,550 ratings — published 2018
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,809 ratings — published 2016
Biotechnology Entrepreneurship: Starting, Managing, and Leading Biotech Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.48 — 25 ratings — published 2014
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,941 ratings — published 2022
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,571 ratings — published 1983
Biopunk: Kitchen-Counter Scientists Hack the Software of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.62 — 624 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,037 ratings — published 2013
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,761 ratings — published 2009
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.71 — 112 ratings — published 2006
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,830 ratings — published 2019
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,653 ratings — published 2007
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,078 ratings — published 2018
Autonomous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.57 — 18,472 ratings — published 2017
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.00 — 291,786 ratings — published 2003
From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.84 — 44 ratings — published
Conscience and Courage: How Visionary CEO Henri Termeer Built a Biotech Giant and Pioneered the Rare Disease Industry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.13 — 47 ratings — published
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,990 ratings — published 2019
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,316 ratings — published 2019
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.30 — 186,124 ratings — published 2015
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,500 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,510 ratings — published 1976
The Eighth Day of Creation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.56 — 421 ratings — published 1979
Blood Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,454 ratings — published 1985
From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.58 — 97 ratings — published 2000
The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises--and the Fate of ImClone's Cancer Drug (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.16 — 31 ratings — published 2004
In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.27 — 15 ratings — published
Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biotech)
avg rating 3.76 — 310 ratings — published
The Right Price: A Value-Based Prescription for Drug Costs (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biotech)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,406 ratings — published 2011
“If I were going to kill her for her eyes, I would have done it in ten years, after I was nicely established as the head of research and development for a biotech firm big enough to make murder charges just go away. Killing her now benefits me not at all.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched.”
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