Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
by Nicholas Wade
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Wade, a leading science journalist, claims that medicine is still in its dark age. His book explores how, with the discovery of the human genome, we will be affected by possession of the genome knowledge, the power it has; also, how we will choose to use it and to what end.Tags
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Born in Aylesbury, England, Nicholas Wade studies at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He has worked at nature and Science and is currently a science reporter for The New York Times. The author of four previous books, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction, Health & Wellness
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- 616.042 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Pathology; Diseases; Treatment Genetic and hereditary diseases Genetic Diseases
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- RB155 .W326 — Medicine Pathology Pathology Theories of disease. Etiology. Pathogenesis
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