Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite LifeHarper Collins, 6 okt. 2009 - 273 sidor James Watson, J. Craig Venter, Francis Collins, Cynthia Kenyon . . . you may not know them, but you should. They are the masterminds of genetics and biotechnology who want you to live to be 150 years old, to regenerate your heart and brain, to create synthetic life. For better or worse, they are about to alter life on earth forever. Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan tells the remarkable stories of cutting-edge bioscientists, revealing their quirky, uniquely fascinating, sometimes vaguely unsettling personas as a means to understand their science and the astonishing implications of their work. This book seamlessly combines myth, biography, scholarship, and wit that poses the all-important question: Can we actually trust these masterminds? |
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... JAMES WATSON SYDNEY BRENNER PAUL BERG DOUGLAS MELTON CYNTHIA KENYON ENYON FRANCIS COLLINS J. CRAIG VENTER JAMES WATSON SYDNEY BRENNER PAUL BERG DOUGLAS MELTON CYNTHIA KENYON FRANC HIA KENYON FRANCIS COLLINS J. CRAIG VENTER JAMES WATSON ...
... James Fallows , national correspondent , Atlantic Monthly " Duncan's linking of biological science to myths and legends guides the reader to the figure whose tale overhangs his account of the promise and peril inherent in this march of ...
... James Watson 155 · · 6. Puck Sydney Brenner 179 7. Moses · Paul Berg 201 EPILOGUE : What If Frankenstein's Monster Had Einstein's Brain ? 231 Acknowledgments 243 Notes 245 Index 255 MASTERMINDS PRELUDE : THE GENETICIST WHO PLAYED HOOPS ...
... James Watson argued forcefully against a self - imposed moratorium on recombinant DNA work at the 1975 Asilimar conference , insisting that the process could remain contained and safe in the lab , and that a moratorium would frighten ...
... James Watson and a supermodel , an Olympic pentathlete with no hair and a math whiz with dreadlocks . Most differences in humans involve just one set of base pairs called single - nucleotide polymorphisms - SNPs , pronounced " snips ...
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Eve Cynthia Kenyon | 57 |
Paul | 85 |
Faustus | 121 |
Zeus James Watson | 155 |
Puck Sydney Brenner | 179 |
Moses | 201 |
What If Frankensteins Monster Had Einsteins Brain? | 231 |
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Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life David Ewing Duncan Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2006 |
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life David Ewing Duncan Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2009 |
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life David Ewing Duncan Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2006 |