Siddhartha Mukherjee
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In the years since Mukherjee dazzled readers with THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, much has changed in the universe of cancer--in our understanding of its causes; in our attempts to prevent it; and in the emerging and revolutionary new treatments, including those Mukherjee himself helped devise for leukemia and lymphoma. In four profound and revolutionary new chapters--essentially a new book about cancer--he illuminates the landscape of this disease with...
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Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, the author draws on his own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader to explore how the discovery of cells created a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulation of cells.
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2016.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea...
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"Gen" Siddharthi Mukerdzhi – ischerpyvayuschiy i uvlekatelnyy rasskaz ob istorii razvitiya nauki genetiki, ot eksperimentov s gorohom do gennogo redaktora, i vseh udivitelnyh otkrytiy, sovershennyh mezhdu nimi. Mukerdzhi proslezhivaet istoriyu genetiki, organichno pomeschaya ee v politicheskie dvizheniya i mirovye sobytiya, kotorye ona porodila – kak obnadezhivayuschie, tak i otvratitelnye. On rasskazyvaet o sovremennyh vozmozhnostyah gennoy inzhenerii,...
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Essential, required listening for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine-and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood...
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Eta epohalnaya kniga - vseobemlyuschaya, zhivo izlozhennaya i gluboko obosnovannaya nauchno
istoriya otnosheniy chelovechestva i raka, na fone kotoroy razvorachivayutsya lichnye istorii
voyny s "tsarem vseh bolezney". Provodya chitatelya cherez izmenchivye predstavleniya ob etoy
bolezni v raznye epohi, sposoby lecheniya, vehi poznaniya ee mehanizmov i konflikty inte-
resov vokrug nee, avtor raskryvaet prichiny ogranichennosti pobed nad ney i namechaet...
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Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for cancer There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it's estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine, Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether the history of cancers in her family was simple bad luck...
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In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human...
