BioEvolution

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has declared that if he could do it over again, he’d be “working in biotechnology.” That’s because no area of science is moving faster nor will have a greater impact. BioEvolution is the first book to explain what biotechnology is all about and to describe the amazing scientific advances that have already been made. Fumento shows how biotechnology is changing our lives and will do so even more dramatically in the near future.

Reporting from the ground zero of experimentation and clinical trials, Fumento shows how biotechnology has already demonstrated the potential to cure almost any disease, extend human lifespans well past the 120-year range, and wipe out not only famine but malnutrition while using less land, less water, and fewer chemicals.

He discusses the miracle drugs and treatments in the biotechnology pipeline–scientific innovations that will change medicine over the next decades, eliminating diseases such as diabetes, AIDS, and Alzheimer’s and making cancer into a manageable disorder rather than a death sentence. Living up to the reputation as a “myth buster” he has acquired as a result of his work unmasking “junk science,” Fumento also sorts out science from non-science and nonsense. He shows, for instance, that the bitter fight over embryonic stem cells is a distraction from wonders already being performed with non-embryonic adult stem cells. He counters both the emotional and scientific claims against so-called “Frankenfood” and shows how it will help feed a hungry planet.

BioEvolution is science fact. The biotechnical advances it describes are already happening and will come to fruition in the next decade. Michael Fumento shows that the future is now.