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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... important neurologist , he delved into the mechanics of multiple scle- rosis and other maladies of the brain . At first , before new technologies made deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) easier to work with , he cut open the brains of persons ...
... important enough that these discoveries landed on the front page of the New York Times when each was announced in 2003 . So I am hardly alone in being tested by Stefansson's labs and com- puters , though what sets me apart is that I'm ...
... important caveat : " and are willing to take the consequences . " The last century contains many other examples of science's running amok : the sick experiments of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz ; the pro- gram at Tuskegee , Alabama , in ...
... important ? Because , as the Harvard biochemist Stuart Schreiber once told me over coffee , his eyes magnified through thick wire - rim glasses wrapped around a bald head that looks both thuggish and hip : " There's a high probability ...
... important when it comes to your mitochondrial DNA , because if we look at the mitochondrial se- quence number one , that people look at mostly for ancestry , we find out that you have a haplotype that is characteristic for Euro- peans ...
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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 |