TY - BOOK AU - Yount,Lisa AU - Yount,Lisa TI - Modern genetics: engineering life SN - 0816057443 AV - QH437.5 YOU 2006 U1 - 576.5/09 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York, NY PB - Chelsea House KW - Genetics KW - History KW - Juvenile literature KW - Genetic engineering N1 - Rev. ed. of: Genetics and genetic engineering, c1997; Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-196) and index; The code of life: Francis Crick, James Watson, and the structure of DNA -- Gene sandwiches to go: Herbert Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen, and the birth of genetic engineering -- The killers inside: Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and genes that cause cancer -- New genes for old: French Anderson and gene therapy -- Death in the family: Nancy Wexler and genes for inherited diseases -- The life-forever worm: Cynthia Kenyon and the genetics of aging -- Hello, Dolly: Ian Wilmut and cloning -- Out of one, many: James Thomson and embryonic stem cells -- The rice that saves eyes: Ingo Potrykus and golden rice -- The genome race: Francis Collins, Craig Venter, and sequencing the human genome -- Chronology -- Glossary N2 - Profiles geneticists and highlights discoveries they have made; includes Gregor Mendel and the laws of inheritance, James Watson and the structure of DNA, and Stanley Cohen and genetic engineering UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005018152.html ER -