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Signs of Life

Language and Meanings of DNA

Robert Pollack (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1995 | New edition
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-023069-7 (ISBN)

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Since the discovery of DNA 40 years ago, there has been an explosion of knowledge - scientists now manipulate DNA to correct a damaged cell, and even secure convictions by genetic fingerprinting. The potential of such a powerful knowledge creates grounds for an explosive ethical and legal debate.

It's barely 40 years ago that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the code of law that governs inheritance, the base-pairing rules of DNA. Since then, there has been an explosion of knowledge: scientists can now manipulate DNA to correct a damaged cell, nurture an endangered embryo, arrest degenerative diseases, detect foetal chromosome abnormalities and even secure convictions by genetic fingerprinting. The underlying potential of such a powerful knowledge creates grounds for an explosive ethical and legal debate.

Invisible cities and crystalline books; chromosomes and canons; sentences, sculptures and the ambiguities of translation; the molecular word processor; texts, contexts and the transgenic stage; between physics and history - the new paradigm of biology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.4.1995
Reihe/Serie	Penguin science
Zusatzinfo	further reading, index
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 197 mm
Gewicht	165 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-14-023069-6 / 0140230696
ISBN-13	978-0-14-023069-7 / 9780140230697
Zustand	Neuware