The Genome War基因战争
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作者： James Shreeve著
出 版 社： 德加拉
出版时间： 2005-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 403印刷时间： 2005/06/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780345433749包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
James Shreeve is the author of The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origin, and coauthor of Lucy’s Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, National Geographic, Science, Smithsonian, and other publications. He has been a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Shreeve lives in South Orange, New Jersey.
内容简介
The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within three years would unravel the complete genetic code of human life—seven years before the projected finish of the U.S. government’s Human Genome Project. Venter hoped that by decoding the genome ahead of schedule, he would speed up the pace of biomedical research and save the lives of thousands of people. He also hoped to become very famous and very rich. Calling his company Celera (from the Latin for “speed”), he assembled a small group of scientists in an empty building in Rockville, Maryland, and set to work.
At the same time, the leaders of the government program, under the direction of Francis Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, began to mobilize an unexpectedly unified effort to beat Venter to the prize—knowledge that had the potential to revolutionize medicine and society.
The stage was set for one of the most thrilling—and important—dramas in the history of science. The Genome War is the definitive account of that drama—the race for the greatest prize biology has had to offer, told by a writer with exclusive access to Venter’s operation from start to finish. It is also the story of how one man’s ambition created a scientific Camelot where, for a moment, it seemed that the competing interests of pure science and commercial profit might be gloriously reconciled—and the national repercussions that resulted when that dream went awry.
目录
Prologue
PART ONE
1. May 1998: "You Can Do Mouse"
2. The Secret of Life
3. Down Bungtown Road
4. Genesis
5. ]'he Code Breaker
6. This Guy Can Get Sequencers to Work
7. The Quieter World
8. H Flu
PART TWO
9. A Hundred Million Customers
10. The Gene Hunter
11. All Hands
12. Dead onArrival
13. Venter Units
14. War
15. The Ides of March
16. He Doesn't Get It
17. The Hand of Man
18. Evil Boy
19. Chess Games
20. How toAssernble a Fly
21. Line 678
22. Dancing in Miami
PART THREE
23. Getting to No
24. Things Being What They Are
25. A Garden Party
26. End Game
Epilogue: A Beautiful Moment
A Note on Sources
Notes
Acknowledgments
