DNA: How the Biotech Revolution Is Changing the Way We Fight Disease

by Frank H. Stephenson

In the fall of 2005, leading scientists from the National Cancer Institute announced the beginning of the cancer genome atlas project, a large-scale endeavor to map every gene implicated in cancer and the first step toward development of new therapies for treating this still baffling disease. This spin-off of the human genome project is only the latest exciting research advance in a decades-long quest to fully understand the biochemistry of the human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159102482X
• ISBN13: 9781591024828
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"