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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... eyes alluring and murderous , I'm struck by a simple revelation . Stefansson in many ways is the early - twenty - first - century equivalent of Erik the Red . He is a ma- rauder and warrior , a larger than life figure who slices through ...
... eyes , a crooked left second toe , a tendency to be far more curious than is healthy . I also have this flip in my left eyebrow that my grandmother once called " the lick of God . " All the men in my family for at least five generations ...
... eyes magnified through thick wire - rim glasses wrapped around a bald head that looks both thuggish and hip : " There's a high probability that for Homo sapiens , the process of evolution as we currently think about it , as natural ...
... eyes you are using to stare at your pinky contain deoxyribonucleic acid . Your eyes were made ac- cording to instructions stored in you in those nucleotides , and they continue to see thanks to eyeball maintenance programs stowed in ...
... eyes already glazing ? Well , think of this as learning to drink wine , which most people don't like at first but keep trying until it becomes quite a nice sensation . Scientific concepts will not be quite so sweet , or dry , for most ...
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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 |