Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite LifeHarper Collins, 2009 M10 6 - 273 páginas James Watson, J. Craig Venter, Francis Collins, Cynthia Kenyon . . . you may not know them, but you should. They are the masterminds of genetics and biotechnology who want you to live to be 150 years old, to regenerate your heart and brain, to create synthetic life. For better or worse, they are about to alter life on earth forever. Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan tells the remarkable stories of cutting-edge bioscientists, revealing their quirky, uniquely fascinating, sometimes vaguely unsettling personas as a means to understand their science and the astonishing implications of their work. This book seamlessly combines myth, biography, scholarship, and wit that poses the all-important question: Can we actually trust these masterminds? |
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... told me a few months earlier , when we met during a biotech conference in New York . Stefansson had promised to reveal my results when we returned that afternoon to his office , making me one of the first persons ever to reveal publicly ...
... told me over coffee , his eyes magnified through thick wire - rim glasses wrapped around a bald head that looks both thuggish and hip : " There's a high probability that for Homo sapiens , the process of evolution as we currently think ...
... told us your ancestors came from Scotland . In the Icelandic Sagas , they said that Iceland was settled by Nor- wegian Vikings who stopped in the British Isles and picked up slaves and women , in Ireland and maybe Scotland . And we de ...
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Eve Cynthia Kenyon | 57 |
Paul | 85 |
Faustus | 121 |
Zeus James Watson | 155 |
Puck Sydney Brenner | 179 |
Moses | 201 |
What If Frankensteins Monster Had Einsteins Brain? | 231 |
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Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life David Ewing Duncan Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life David Ewing Duncan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |