The Genome War
How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
作成者: James Shreeve · 2005
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- この版についてThe long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within three years would unravel the complete genetic code of human life—seven years before the projected finish of the U.S. government’s Human Genome Project. Venter hoped that by decoding the genome ahead of schedule, he would speed up the pace of biomedical research and save the lives of thousands of people. He also hoped to become very famous and very rich. Calling his company Celera (from the Latin for “speed”), he assembled a small group of s...ソース: 出版社この版の詳細一部を表示他の版2004年2007年12月18日Alfred A. KnopfRandom House Publishing Groupハードカバー電子書籍416 ページ416 ページ書籍を入手借りるライブラリを検索できますWorldCat で検索WorldCat を検索作品について初版発行: 2003年10月15日ジャンル: 伝記著者James Shreeve is the author of The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origin, and coauthor of Lucy’s Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, National Geographic, Science, Smithsonian, and other publications. He has been a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Shreeve lives in South Orange, New Jersey.James Shreeve を検索同じ著者の他の作品The Neandertal EnigmaSolving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins作成者: James ShreeveAmong all the forms of early humans, the Neandertals hold a special place in our imaginations. Thriving through the Ice Age rigors of Europe and western Asia for 150,000 years, they combined enormous ...The Sex Token作成者: James ShreeveNature第 18 巻その他の書籍出版社Random HouseRandom House を検索