Just finished reading the new book by George Church called Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. The book tracks the evolution of genomics and genetic engineering (now called synthetic biology), and explores current and upcoming developments and technologies in biotech from biomaterials to bioenergy to biomedicine. I've written a full executive summary of the book available here: http://newbooksinbrief.com/2012/10/30...
Cheers,
Aaron