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The secret of life: Redesigning the living worldAuthor: Joseph S. LevineTitle: The secret of life: Redesigning the living worldPublication: StoddartEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Stoddart, 1999. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with sticker residue on the front cover, and black publisher mark on the bottom page ends. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. Seller ID: 360668Subject: Science & Nature We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
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The impact of advances in molecular biology on our daily lives is the theme of this stunningly illustrated companion to a PBS series. Biologist Levine and geneticist Suzuki (the series' host) scan the frustrating search for vaccines to combat AIDS and take readers inside the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta where researchers are devising strategies to "teach" the immune system to ward off viruses. The authors also scrutinize attempts to isolate genes implicated in cancer and examine medical and commercial applications spawned by biotechnology, with its attendant ethical dilemmas and potential environmental hazards. Looking to the future, they detail the potential of gene therapy as a tool to correct genetic defects, to "enhance" normal characteristics or to cure hereditary diseases. This volume, which stands on its own as a scholarly survey, concludes with an impartial review of the controversy over whether specific genes can make people smart, shy, criminal, alcoholic, manic-depressive or homosexual.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In a companion volume to an upcoming PBS television series produced by WGBH in Boston, this book approaches the so-called "molecular revolution" as a phenomenon to be reckoned with. Unscientific-minded readers should find the eight-chapter format (paralleling the eight-part documentary's itinerary) to be informative and illuminating with regard to molecular biology as a basic concept. This highly readable text often adopts engaging analogies to convert scientific lingo to more understandable ideas, and the transformative possibilities of today's research--into genetic engineering, viral infections, cancer, and other deadly diseases--become an exciting reality because of the accessible writing. Alice Joyce
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