Eye-opening and mind-expanding, "Mapping Our Genes" tells of the experts who are brightly hopeful about using genetic mapping and engineering as weapons in the war against the many incurable genetically inherited maladies.
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Genomes, or the human genetic histories contained in each DNA molecule's 100,000 genes, are discussed here in accessible terms. Wingerson shows how researchers trace hereditary diseases and predicts that scientists will soon be able to identify most of the principal genes. This is a "laudable, ambitious effort" written in "detective-story fashion," said PW. Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Nowhere do ethics and science converge more dramatically than in the field of medical genetics. Basing her book on over 150 interviews with patients, physicians, and researchers, Wingerson presents case studies which describe the transmission and diffusion of hereditary diseases over generations. Scientists painstakingly track occurrences of the disease, then, back in the laboratory, employ rigorous techniques to attempt to isolate the gene that conveys the affliction. The grandest project in molecular biology today is the human genome project: a massive, government-funded program to map every gene in human DNA. The author writes in clear, conversational prose; technical concepts are easily understood. Recommended for public libraries.
- Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Lib., Bozeman
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Gregg Sapp, Montana State Univ. Lib., Bozeman
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Project and the Future of Medicine (Plume) (Paperback)
if you need a topic to discuss in any class this would be the perfect book for you! It raises some good questions about the morality of genome research and it informs you of the main diseases that are passed on through the genes.
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