Biotechnology and your health /
Scientists have come a long, long way since Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the wonder drug of the 20th century. This program explains the function of infection-fighting antibiotics; vaccinations and insulin, crucial to the prevention of diseases such as smallpox and the management...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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Hamilton, NJ :
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
2009.
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| Series: | Biotechnology in the 21st century (DVD)
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| Summary: | Scientists have come a long, long way since Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the wonder drug of the 20th century. This program explains the function of infection-fighting antibiotics; vaccinations and insulin, crucial to the prevention of diseases such as smallpox and the management of diabetes; recombinant drugs, treatments involving genetically engineered DNA; and stem cells, those chameleon-like building blocks of the body. --Container. |
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| Item Description: | "Pharmaceutical applications" found on disc label and container. Noted in credits : based on the book "Biotechnology and your health : pharmaceutical applications", by Bernice Zeldin Schacter. (Chelsea House Publishers). |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography and editor, Curt Massof ; narrator, Gayle Friedman Gold. |
| ISBN: | 9781608250752 160825075X |