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The Gene

An Intimate History. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Wissensbuch des Jahres 2017. Nominiert: Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016, Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Wis - B-Format
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
608 Seiten
Englisch
Random House UKerschienen am23.03.2017
Spanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. It is also an intimate history of the author's own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives.mehr
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KlappentextSpanning the globe and several centuries, this is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. It is also an intimate history of the author's own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives.
ZusammenfassungThis NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty,THE GENE gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity and a vision of both humanitys past and future.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-958457-5
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum23.03.2017
Seiten608 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht453 g
Artikel-Nr.40117303

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Kritik
With a marriage of architectural precision and luscious narrative, an eye for both the paradoxical detail and the unsettling irony, and a genius for locating the emotional truths buried in chemical abstractions, Mukherjee leaves you feeling as though you've just aced a college course for which you'd been afraid to register - and enjoyed every minute of it Andrew Solomon Washington Postmehr

Autor

Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a stem cell biologist and a cancer geneticist. He is the author of The Laws of Medicine and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and the Guardian First Book Award.

Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. His laboratory has identified genes that regulate stem cells, and his team is internationally recognized for its discovery of skeletal stem cells and genetic alterations in blood cancers.

He has published work in Nature, Cell, Neuron, The New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times and several other magazine and journals. He lives with his family in New York City.