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Making Genes, Making Waves

A Social Activist in Science

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Hardback
Book Making Genes, Making Waves Jon Beckwith
Libristo code: 04634390
Publishers Harvard University Press, October 2002
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In 1969, Jon Beckwith and his colleagues succeeded in isolating a gene from the chromosome of a living organism. Announcing this startling achievement at a press conference, Beckwith took the opportunity to issue a public warning about the dangers of genetic engineering. Jon Beckwith's book, the story of a scientific life on the front line, traces one remarkable man's dual commitment to scientific research and social responsibility over the course of a career spanning most of the postwar history of genetics and molecular biology. A thoroughly engrossing memoir that recounts Beckwith's halting steps toward scientific triumphs - among them, the discovery of the genetic element that turns genes on - as well as his emergence as a world-class political activist, "Making Genes, Making Waves" is also a compelling history of the major controversies in genetics over d

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Full name Making Genes, Making Waves
Author Jon Beckwith
Language English
Binding Book - Hardback
Date of issue 2002
Number of pages 254
EAN 9780674009288
Libristo code 04634390
Weight 449
Dimensions 140 x 210 x 25
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