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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... experiment to check my nucleotides for genes associated with disease . Back in the States , I had a lab extract three vials of my blood to ship on dry ice to Reykjavik . deCode's technicians then plucked out my DNA from the white blood ...
... experiment to unlock the | secrets of my own DNA . In due course , I will find out my results . But as I watch him play , his dark green eyes alluring and murderous , I'm struck by a simple revelation . Stefansson in many ways is the ...
... Experiments are under way to create new forms of life . The geneti- cist J. Craig Venter , cosequencer of the human genome , is creating at his nonprofit Institute for Biological Alternatives the first synthetic life - form . Working in ...
... experiments of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz ; the pro- gram at Tuskegee , Alabama , in which black sharecroppers who had syphilis were denied treatment for forty years by researchers who were studying the effects of the disease ; and the ...
... experiments and the release of new products and hopefully to head off anything that might prove dangerous . The tension be- tween how safe is safe and the pressure from scientists to test new dis- coveries is one of the defining aspects ...
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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 |