Dealing with genes: The language of heredity - Softcover

Berg, Paul & Maxine Singer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632033398 ISBN 13: 9780632033393

Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992

Synopsis

269p silver paperback, from a Cambridge college library, near fine condition

About this title

About the Author

Maxine Singer is the President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Scientist Emeritus at the NIH where she conducts research on transposable elements in the human genome. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine, and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1992.

Paul Berg is Willson Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, and received the National Medal of Science in 1983.

Review

"A brilliantly clarifying experience that lights up the whole revolution in contemporary biology." -- Robert McAdams, Smithsonian Institution

Even those with little science background can follow these early chapters and enjoy the payoff that comes next. -- Science Books & Films

clear prose accompanied by beautiful illustrations --Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0632033398
• ISBN 13: 9780632033393
• Binding: Paperback