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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... as for- midable as his wild - eyed Norse forebears in the Icelandic sagas he likes to read , those hairy warriors who sailed in flat - keeled longboats one thousand years ago , snatching women from the British MASTERMINDS.
Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life David Ewing Duncan. one thousand years ago , snatching women from the British Isles and taking them to this bleak edge of the earth . I haven't played basketball in years . When I finally grab ...
... thousand years in Iceland and collected by deCode into a computerized database they call the Islendingabok , the " Book of Icelanders , " Stefansson can tap into what medical and mortality details exist about the 680,000 people who have ...
... thousand of them in a human , and a few hundred of them in the simplest single - celled bacterium . ( The exact number of human genes is still debated ; there also are mil- lions of base pairs that apparently do nothing , so - called ...
... thousand bases diverging to make us distinct . These differences in the human recipe account for variations in everything from eye color to disease . They account for the differences between James Watson and a supermodel , an Olympic ...
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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 |