A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTINTG]

Venter, J. Craig

Verlag: Viking, New York, 2007

Beschreibung

As new condition navy blue boards/white spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A remainder mark is at bottom page edges. "It's thanks to Venter, aggressive and hard-nosed as he is, that the world can read the score of the human symphony." - Time (Person of the Year 2000). "[Venter is] not just trying to understand how life works; he's trying to make it work for him, and for us." - The Atlantic. "Venter alone is taking the measure of life's true diversity and dreaming up new life-forms at the same time." - Wired. "Of all the extraordinary scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for it's technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. It has charted a landscape in which we will discover the most intricate workings of our species, the particularites of our own individual genetic makeup, and the promise of novel approaches to health and medicine that will make a new stage in human development, one in which inherited biology is no longer necessarily destiny. A Life Decoded is the story of this singular milestone in our history, told by the man who through a combination of vision, tenacity, ingenuity, and insight challenged conventional wisdom and refuted his critics to reveal the human genetic code.But reading the human genome is only the beginning of a revolution in our relationship with the world. Craig Venter has built on that foundation, as he explains in the closing pages of A Life Decoded, to investigate the genomes of the atmosphere and the oceans, to transplant genetic material from one organism into another, and to create synthetic life - all projects with the potential to address the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century. That, finally, is the purest goal of science and lies at the heart of this inspiring and remarkable book.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001244

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life [FIRST ...

Verlag: Viking, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition