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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... early Viking explorer and marauder insisted that I go one on one . Every day at 2:00 P.M. , when he's not wandering the globe rustling up cash or giving talks , Stefansson drives from his office downtown across this speck of a capital ...
... early - twenty - first - century equivalent of Erik the Red . He is a ma- rauder and warrior , a larger than life figure who slices through frigid waters in a longboat with an outsized passion to conquer , to achieve glory , and perhaps ...
... early twentieth century found their dazzling the- ories turn into not only the transistor and spaceflight , but also the bomb . The Manhattan Project chief Robert Oppenheimer , for one , spent the rest of his life after Hiroshima and ...
... early in the story describes his inten- tions . " It was the secrets of heaven and earth I desired to learn ; and whether it was the outward substance of things , or the inner spirit and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me ...
... early humanoids figured out that by standing upright on the savannas of Africa they could see quarry to hunt or a hungry saber - toothed tiger bearing down on them . Those humanoids had a tiny difference in their DNA that allowed them ...
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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 |