Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA August 21, 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0195114876
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195114874
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 13.8 ounces
Product Review
The Human Genome Project, biology's equivalent of the Apollo lunar-landing program, aims to uncover all 100,000 genes that control human development and to detail the DNA alphabet of each.
"The message of
The Book of Man is that all responsible citizens ought to achieve DNA literacy. Strongly recommended for scientists and nonscientists alike." --
Francis Crick, Nobel laureate
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From Publishers Weekly
Rather than focusing on the politics and intrigue behind the Human Genome Project (HGP), this exciting, valuable primer emphasizes the scientific breakthroughs and remaining hurdles facing the international cooperative effort to map the three million genes that comprise human DNA. Bodmer, a British geneticist and former president of the Human Genome Organization (which fosters global collaboration in genome mapping), and Observer science correspondent McKie believe the HGP will provide information vital to the treatment of diseases, understanding of individual differences in behavior and human evolution and the development of new pharmaceutical drugs. Inherited illnesses, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's chorea, are beginning to yield to molecular genetics, and the authors also show how ongoing research is raising the prospects for effective treatment of cancer, diabetes and
Alzheimer's disease. They conclude with a levelheaded look at the ethical issues surrounding genetic testing and gene theory, in which missing genes are inserted into people afflicted by inherited ailments. A tour de force of popular exposition. Illustrated.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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