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Potential book titles:

• Current Revolutions in Life Science
• Life Science Revolutions

Introduction Frame: The biotech revolution is currently underway and promises to reshape the world in ways even more transformative than the agricultural, industrial and information revolutions that preceded it. 

Topic chapters tied togetether with analysis, implications and big picture at the end

Chapters

• Biotechnology
  • Overview and current status; why is it $1.3B to bring a new drug to market, why is the # of new drugs brought to market each year static
  • Bioinformatics
  • Key equipment and methodology advances: protein crystallography, flow cytommetry, mass spec, chromatograph
• Genomics
• Personalized Medicine
• Longevity therapies
• Neuroimaging, neuroengineering
• Body computing, self-measurement, novel devices
• Synthetic biology
• Biometrics
• Converging AI technologies
• Biocomputing