Book ID: CBB001211157

The Genome Generation (2012)

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Finkel, Elizabeth (Author)


Melbourne University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xiv + 274 pp.; ill.
Language: English

"The year 2001 saw the completion of the human genome project, the culmination of a fourteen-year, $3 billion international race to read every letter of the code that makes up a human being. Reading this code was the most profound revelation in the history of knowledge, with the potential to unveil the secret of what makes us human. After three years of investigation, Elizabeth Finkel brings us the biggest news stories from the genetics frontier. She looks at the revolution in the areas of medicine, agriculture and evolution, travelling from Botswana to Boston, from Singapore to Mexico, from wheatfields in the Wimmera plains to laboratories all over Australia to help us understand what is happening in 'The Genome Generation'"--P. [4] of cover.

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Authors & Contributors
Gil Viry
Mark Wong
Rhodri Ivor Leng
James Lowe
Vermeulen, Niki
García-Sancho, Miguel
Concepts
Genomics
Human genetics
Race
Genetics
DNA; RNA
Science and race
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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