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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... happened . ) Personality played a critical role in this de- bate between Berg and Watson . The science emanates from their minds , and from their personal stories , but also from who they are : their hopes and fears ; their humil- ity ...
... happens as a matter of course . I have taken these very human , and therefore flawed , individuals and assigned them ... happen , pos- sibly in secret in countries where neither ethics nor the public's fears much matter . This makes it ...
... DNA molecules on the ancient Earth figured out how to copy themselves ; efforts to piece together a mechanistic picture of 24 how this happened have been ongoing since the 1950s THE LANGUAGE OF BIOTECH A GENETIC PRIMER.
... happened have been ongoing since the 1950s ) . This is be- cause each nucleotide is designed by evolution to pair with another specific nucleotide . As like to pair with Ts , and Gs with Cs . When DNA replicates it splits in half , with ...
... happen frequently , it seems - though how often is open to debate as certain researchers say the rate of mutation is constant , while others say it goes up and down based on whether or not an organism needs to mutate or not . 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 |