The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological RevolutionMacmillan, 8 Μαΐ 2002 - 289 σελίδες For twelve months beginning in January 2000, celebrated essayist and research physician Gerald Weissmann carefully documented the modern age of enlightenment, charting its scientific marvels and new plagues. Now, this illuminating diary takes us on a literary exploration of laboratories and beyond to see the impact on human life and culture of headliners such as RU 486, AIDS drugs, and other current developments, including the controversial use of stem cells. Whether calling on Ralph Waldo Emerson to explain Craig Venter's drive to unravel the genome or tracing the effect of Rachel Carson's legacy on the spread of malaria around the world, Weissmann's lively chronicle captures the greatest genetic revolution of all time. |
Περιεχόμενα
Introduction | 1 |
2000 | 2 |
Ever since Galileo Cloning Loses in the House | 16 |
Dr Baltimores Magic Bullet | 34 |
Hitlers Gift and the Price of AIDS | 52 |
The Genome Is Online | 65 |
Dengue and DDT What Would Voltaire Do? | 81 |
The Balkan Syndrome | 98 |
Nobel Prizes the Mouse Genome Project | 145 |
RU 486 Comes to America Hommage à Claude Bernard | 152 |
Pope Says No to Cloning | 163 |
Nicotine and Marijuana Auden and Ginsberg | 173 |
Alzheimers Disease and City Hospitals | 181 |
AIDS in Africa Gene Death in America | 190 |
The Human Genome Is Almost Complete | 200 |
Chronic Fatigue and the Wisdom of the Body | 211 |
Rock of Ages Why We Creak | 106 |
The Great Fear Mad Cows and Englishmen | 116 |
Pesticides The Nader Factor and Heidegger | 125 |
Ebola Out of Africa with the Sanitarians | 133 |
Gene Therapy and Sophia Loren | 220 |
| 235 | |
Acknowledgments | 275 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution Gerald Weissmann Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |
The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution Gerald Weissmann Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |
The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution Gerald Weissmann Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
acid Africa AIDS Alzheimer's American animals announced anthrax antibodies apoptosis argued arsenic aspirin bacteria Baltimore became biological blood Boston brain called cancer caused Celera century Chargaff chemical chromosome chronic clinical cloning Craig Venter David Baltimore death dengue dengue fever developed diploid doctors drug Ebola effects eflornithine Ehrlich embryo enzyme epidemic Eric Lander fever foot-and-mouth disease genes genetic Gleevec Holmes Hospital human genome Ibid Icelandic immune infected inflammation inhibited inhibitor Jewish Jews killed leukemia Lewis Thomas mad cow malaria medicine membrane mice microbe million molecular molecules National NF-kappa Nobel Prize O'Brian organic outbreak parthenogenesis patients percent Philadelphia chromosome Pincus president prion prostaglandins protein receptors reported rickettsiae rotenone salicylates scientists scrapie sequences sleeping sickness stem cell studies syndrome therapy thousand tion transplantation trypanosome turned typhus University vaccine Venter virus week Weissmann Wolbachia York Zinsser µg/L
Αναφορές για αυτό το βιβλίο
Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells Jane Maienschein Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |
Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells Jane Maienschein Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2003 |