The gene masters : how a new breed of scientific entrepreneurs raced for the biggest prize in biology /
Wickelgren, Ingrid.
The gene masters : how a new breed of scientific entrepreneurs raced for the biggest prize in biology / Ingrid Wickelgren. - 1st edition - New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2002. - x, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-280) and index.
Contents
Prologue: unfinished business
Engineers plant a rose
A rebel lands a cause
Gene darling
Crouching TIGR
Dragon slayer
The odd couple
Fame in a germ
A worm shows the way
The insider
OfWorms and men
Affliction in Iceland
The divorce
The man from Buffalo
Seeds of thunder
The maligned manifesto
The final plans
Confronting the government
The response
Demonizing a database
The making of a monster
Medicine man
The race
Hope, hype and acrimony
The final stretch
A genome unveiled
Jockeying for the prize
Epilogue
0805071741 (hbk.)
Human Genome Project.
Human gene mapping.
Geneticists--United States.
Genetic engineering industry--United States.
QU 470 W636g 2002
The gene masters : how a new breed of scientific entrepreneurs raced for the biggest prize in biology / Ingrid Wickelgren. - 1st edition - New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2002. - x, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-280) and index.
Contents
Prologue: unfinished business
Engineers plant a rose
A rebel lands a cause
Gene darling
Crouching TIGR
Dragon slayer
The odd couple
Fame in a germ
A worm shows the way
The insider
OfWorms and men
Affliction in Iceland
The divorce
The man from Buffalo
Seeds of thunder
The maligned manifesto
The final plans
Confronting the government
The response
Demonizing a database
The making of a monster
Medicine man
The race
Hope, hype and acrimony
The final stretch
A genome unveiled
Jockeying for the prize
Epilogue
0805071741 (hbk.)
Human Genome Project.
Human gene mapping.
Geneticists--United States.
Genetic engineering industry--United States.
QU 470 W636g 2002