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Modern genetics : engineering life / Lisa Yount.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Milestones in discovery and inventionPublication details: New York, NY : Chelsea House, c2006.Description: xx, 204 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0816057443
  • 9780816057443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.5/09 22
LOC classification:
  • QH437.5 YOU 2006
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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