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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... fears ; their humil- ity , their arrogance , and the ambition that drive them forward into discoveries and dictates how they react to the possibility of miracles , and of disasters . " Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward log ...
... fears much matter . This makes it even more crucial that this science be al- lowed to go forward while being closely watched , with appropriate safeguards . ack in Kari Stefansson's office , I'm reminded of why I have a per- Bsonal ...
... fear , and hope , revolving as a giant mobile in the lobby of deCode in Iceland and as a model made by Watson and Crick that still sits in a glass case at Cambridge . But DNA itself is nothing more , or less , than a storage bank of ...
... fears about what would happen if we permanently altered a person's germ line , which could be passed on to offspring , have prevented this sort of tinkering from happening in humans , though some scientists ... fear of the MASTERMINDS.
... fear of the unknown . On the other hand , I think it's uninteresting to live in a society where one is so afraid of the unknown that you won't try new things . -Douglas Melton Harvard embryologist W hy did Prometheus do it ? Myths about ...
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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 |