Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development

Nusslein-Volhard, Christiane

ISBN 10: 0967007674 / ISBN 13: 9780967007670

Published by Kales Press, San Diego, CA, 2006

About this Item

San Diego, CA: Kales Press. Good/Good. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 166pp., Dust jacket has light shelf wear, inside corners of dust jacket bent; foxing on top edge; pages clean and unmarked. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development
• Publisher: Kales Press, San Diego, CA
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967007674
• ISBN 13: 9780967007670
• Binding: Hardcover w/DJ
• Illustrator: Color Illustrations
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good/Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science-Genetics

About this title

Synopsis

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, winner of The Nobel Prize in Medicine, gives a concise and illustrative overview of genetics, evolution, and cellular processes as well as a discussing of current ethical issues in human biology.

Coming to Life is a remarkable journey through developmental biology that reveals miraculous processes in the microscopic world of cells. Through an accounting of groundbreaking discoveries, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard tells us many answers to historical and contemporary questions in science. For example, she brings us the newest knowledge about embryonic forms, explains the genetic mechanisms that influence adult development of all animals, and shares insights into the ethical standards society moist uphold in the face of new scientific discoveries.

As the author leads us from laboratory research to its applications in human beings, we also come to understand why children look like their parents, how an embryonic cell knows to become an eye rather than an eyelash, and other incredible influences hat result in variety in life. Complete with her own hand-drawn illustrations, Coming to Life gives a rare opportunity to understand a Nobel Prize-winner's passion for science in concise, understandable language. 55 b/w illustrations.

About the Author

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist. She won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Nobel Prize in Physiology for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development. She lives in Bebenhausen, Germany.