ch. 1. Will biotech banish wrinkles forever? -- ch. 2. The breast milk of civilization -- ch. 3. The little roaring mouse -- ch. 4. Expensive and often useless -- ch. 5. Computers on the compost heap -- ch. 6. Hanging on to hangovers -- ch. 7. How Fidel saved US biotech -- ch. 8. Killing nemo -- ch. 9. 007 and the soup stock -- ch. 10. Glow, little fish, glow! -- ch. 11. Aspartame : nothing but sweetness -- ch. 12. "Irasshaimase, Baioteku" -- ch. 13. Vitamin C and the fly -- ch. 14. Magic bullets against cancer -- ch. 15. Helping hands for your heart -- ch. 16. Nights on the highway -- ch. 17. Doping? No, caterpillar fungus! -- ch. 18. Running out of phosphate -- ch. 19. Snowmax for the Alps? -- ch. 20. Praise for the papaya -- ch. 21. Biochemical bird market -- ch. 22. One pill for (almost) everything? -- ch. 23. Sterilized to perfection -- ch. 24. A tale about a cold -- ch. 25. Biotech at the barber's? -- ch. 26. Just as long as it catches mice! -- ch. 27. Even bacteria grow old -- ch. 28. Give us this day our daily ... mushroom -- ch. 29. The moldy monopoly -- ch. 30. Finding the fountain of youth -- ch. 31. Hong Kong and the bird flu -- ch. 32. The gene off switch -- ch. 33. Going to the dogs? -- ch. 34. Flipper gets artificially fertilized -- ch. 35. Heavily toxic -- ch. 36. Smart medicines -- ch. 37. Digital intestinal bacteria -- ch. 38. Tamiflu fever in Hong Kong -- ch. 39. Save the wild birds! -- ch. 40. Depression from antidepressants? -- ch. 41. Mussel extract takes on Vioxx -- ch. 42. Clone trees that glow in the dark -- ch. 43. A brief history of ecstasy -- ch. 44. Snuppy, made in Korea -- ch. 45. Molecular laundresses -- ch. 46. My own private genome? -- ch. 47. Goethe and the caffeine -- ch. 48. The cats and the bird flu -- ch. 49. Malaria on the ropes -- ch. 50. Blue jeans bacteria blues -- ch. 51. Academic dog-catching -- ch. 52. Fighting infection with beer -- ch. 53. The secret of the sour barrels -- ch. 54. The "Red" crystallographer -- ch. 55. Pasteur, evildoer -- ch. 56. The oil guzzlers are coming -- ch. 57. Antibiotic stinky white fungus -- ch. 58. Praising ginger -- ch. 59. Litmus and hemp -- ch. 60. Another spoonful of red wine? -- ch. 61. DNA caps -- ch. 62. Take the old one -- ch. 63. Was Mozart's starling a composer? -- ch. 64. Much smoke about the heart -- ch. 65. From resignation to WHO -- ch. 66. "West Gelman" eggs for sale! -- ch. 67. DNA and my ancestors -- ch. 68. The Chinese also come from Africa -- ch. 69. Tanking up with corn -- ch. 70. Competition is good for business -- ch. 71. Amino acids, not made in Japan! -- ch. 72. Busy bees : it's all in their genes! -- ch. 73. Leeuwenhoek's wee beasties -- ch. 74. Genetic engineering in your washer -- ch. 75. Yams and cortisone -- ch. 76. Xylophagy in my bookcase -- ch. 77. DNA gunshots into the sea -- ch. 78. Genetic fingerprints -- ch. 79. Biofuel from wood? -- ch. 80. Microbesoft?