Genetic Twists of Fate
$54.07
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2013
Summary
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone’s personal DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may present parents with their newborn’s complete DNA code along with her foo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518642 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518643 |
| Author: | Stanley Fields, Mark Johnston |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
Fields and Johnston succeed in providing an accessible text that may appeal to the general public, and that is both enlightening and entertaining.
—Anthony J. Dellureficio, The Quarterly Review of BiologyAbout The Author
Stanley Fields
Stanley Fields is Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine at the University of Washington and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.Mark Johnston is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genetics.
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