Genomes and What to Make of Them by Barry Barnes HARDBACK 9780226172958

The University of Chicago Press

Genomes and What to Make of ThemAuthor(s): Barry Barnes, John Dupre\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226172958, 978-0226172958\nSynopsis\nThe announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits - and warnings of the dangers - of genomics have remained front-page news, with everyone agreeing that genomics has the potential to radically alter life as we know [url] the nonscientist, the claims and counterclaims are dizzying - what does it really mean to understand the genome? Barry Barnes and John Dupre offer an answer to that question and much more in \""Genomes and What to Make of Them\"", a clear and lively account of the genomic revolution and its promise. The book opens with a brief histo.