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The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.… (más)
Facil de leer, apasionante y cristalino en sus explicaciones. Realmente con el se comprende qué es el genoma y el por qué de su potencialidad e interes tanto científico como social. En este segundo aspecto, los aspectos éticos y de poder que encierran las capacidades que hoy tan solo se vislumbran hace que la ciencia se convierta en muchos puntos en conciencia. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
FOREWORD When I began writing this book, the human genome was still a largely unexplored landscape.
CHROMOSOME 1 Life In the beginning was the word.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Whereas English books are written in words of variable lengths using twenty-three letters, genomes are written entirely in three-letter words, using only four letters: A, C, G, and T (which stand for adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine). (p. 8)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Everybody has a unique and different, endogenous nature. A self.
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.
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