Finding your next bio-tech job does not have to be an arduous task if you patronize Quanta’s service. This is because Quanta has the resources, contacts and knowledge to remove all the common bottlenecks involved with finding a biotech job. Quanta has a team of fully trained consultants who have many years of experience in biotech industry recruitment. This also means that they are able provide effective advice and guidance to Quanta’s candidates clients. So, regardless of whether a job applicant is searching for a contract or permanent role, or a role in the UK or in Europe Quanta can provide an effective recruitment solution. Quanta’s suite of back office tools ensure that the efficiency of service which they provide is second to none in the industry. The close relationships they build with top biotech management enables them to get immediate visibility on new vacancies. This enables them to meet the exact requirements of both their corporate and candidate clients.

Quanta is also dedicated to ensuring that all their candidates have a successful career. This point is demonstrated by the fact that Quanta enrolls all their candidates on to their specially designed candidate care program. It is worth mentioning that this sort of post-service support is unique in the recruitment industry. It is this dynamism and high quality service that has convinced many biotech candidate and corporate clients alike that Quanta is the best recruitment route to take.

When Humans Transcend Biology

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.

When Humans Transcend Biology

Genome

Science writer Matt Ridley has found a way to tell someone else’s story without being accused of plagiarism. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters delves deep within your body (and, to be fair, Ridley’s too) looking for dirt dug up by the Human Genome Project. Each chapter pries one gene out of its chromosome and focuses on its role in our development and adult life, but also goes further, exploring the implications of genetic research and our quickly changing social attitudes toward this information. Genome shies away from the “tedious biochemical middle managers” that only a nerd could love and instead goes for the A-material: genes associated with cancer, intelligence, sex (of course), and more.

Readers unfamiliar with the jargon of genetic research needn’t fear; Ridley provides a quick, clear guide to the few words and concepts he must use to translate hard science into English. His writing is informal, relaxed, and playful, guiding the reader so effortlessly through our 23 chromosomes that by the end we wish we had more. He believes that the Human Genome Project will be as world-changing as the splitting of the atom; if so, he is helping us prepare for exciting times–the hope of a cure for cancer contrasts starkly with the horrors of newly empowered eugenicists. Anyone interested in the future of the body should get a head start with the clever, engrossing Genome.

Genome

Innovation Inspired by Nature

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature’s best ideas — spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells — and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus takes us into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are applying nature’s ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival: stirring vats of proteins to unleash their signaling power in computers; analyzing how spiders manufacture a waterproof fiber five times stronger than steel; studying how electrons in a leaf cell convert sunlight to fuel in trillionths of a second; discovering miracle drugs by observing what animals eat — and much more.

The products of biomimicry are things we can all use — medicines, “smart” computers, super-strong materials, profitable and earth-friendly business. Biomimicry eloquently shows that the answers are all around us.

Innovation Inspired by Nature