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Overview

"Gen" Siddharthi Mukerdzhi – ischerpyvayuschiy i uvlekatelnyy rasskaz ob istorii razvitiya nauki genetiki, ot eksperimentov s gorohom do gennogo redaktora, i vseh udivitelnyh otkrytiy, sovershennyh mezhdu nimi. Mukerdzhi proslezhivaet istoriyu genetiki, organichno pomeschaya ee v politicheskie dvizheniya i mirovye sobytiya, kotorye ona porodila – kak obnadezhivayuschie, tak i otvratitelnye. On rasskazyvaet o sovremennyh vozmozhnostyah gennoy inzhenerii, ne zabyvaya upomyanut o mrachnyh podrobnostyah proshlogo veka, kogda na zare geneticheskih otkrytiy gosudarstva pytalis v massovom poryadke izbavit naselenie ot "defektnyh" chert. Rasskazyvaya o geneticheskom zabolevanii, presleduyuschim i ego sobstvennuyu semyu, Mukerdzhi podnimaet vopros o samom opredelenii bolezni i podnimaet odin iz samyh vazhnyh voprosov sovremennoy genetiki: kakoy uroven vmeshatelstva v geneticheskiy kod my mozhem sebe pozvolit, esli nashi uchenye uzhe fakticheski nauchilis perepisyvat genom?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9785171175795
Publisher: Corpus
Publication date: 11/24/2023
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 861
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 16 Years
Language: Russian

About the Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters.
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