A history and analysis of the Human Genome Project--also known as The Book of Man--the massive international effort mapping each of the three billion molecules that make up human DNA, chronicles the progress of the undertaking. 15,000 first printing.
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The Human Genome Project, biology's equivalent of the Apollo lunar-landing program, aims to uncover all 100,000 genes that control human development and to detail the DNA alphabet of each.
"The message of The Book of Man is that all responsible citizens ought to achieve DNA literacy. Strongly recommended for scientists and nonscientists alike." --Francis Crick, Nobel laureate
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Rather than focusing on the politics and intrigue behind the Human Genome Project (HGP), this exciting, valuable primer emphasizes the scientific breakthroughs and remaining hurdles facing the international cooperative effort to map the three million genes that comprise human DNA. Bodmer, a British geneticist and former president of the Human Genome Organization (which fosters global collaboration in genome mapping), and Observer science correspondent McKie believe the HGP will provide information vital to the treatment of diseases, understanding of individual differences in behavior and human evolution and the development of new pharmaceutical drugs. Inherited illnesses, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's chorea, are beginning to yield to molecular genetics, and the authors also show how ongoing research is raising the prospects for effective treatment of cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. They conclude with a levelheaded look at the ethical issues surrounding genetic testing and gene theory, in which missing genes are inserted into people afflicted by inherited ailments. A tour de force of popular exposition. Illustrated.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Interesting anecdotes but short on human genome information,
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This review is from: The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage (Paperback)
By putting "The Human Genome Project" in the title one is deluded into thinking that the book may contain results from post 1991 human genome research. The reader will be disappointed. The anecdotes are interesting and well written accounts of events concerning use of genetic/DNA material to find the gene related cause of some hereditary diseases. Also some stories are about use of DNA in forensic cases. The book was originally published in 1994 and republished in PB in 1997. The Amazon description might have included this fact. I plan to return the book owing to its lack human genome project information.
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Good choice for Christmas,
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The Book of Man, Human Genome Project, Nobel Prize, Probing the Past, Lords of the Genome, Probing the Present, Life's Mother Tongue, United States, Mapping Our Genes, Cutting the Cord, Gregor Mendel, Karen Price, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Hunter Killers, Professor Williamson, Francis Crick, Woody Guthrie, San Francisco, Alec Jeffreys, Out of Africa, University of California, The Dice of Life, Tay Sachs, The Splice of Life, Professor Davies Browse Sample Pages:
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