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Natural Obsessions
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 600
EAN: 9781860497919
ISBN: 1860497918
Label: Virago Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: June 01, 2000
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Studio: Virago Press Ltd
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Editorial Review:
As dramatic as The Double Hex and as absorbing as The Soul of a New Machine, Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best young scientists in the world, the rewards and discouragements of scientific research, and the very process of scientific inquiry.
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Rating: - The book to understand the values and culture of biological research...
I have revisited this title recently as I strive to get IT professionals to "cross the chasm" to understand not only biology, but the culture and values of biologists and research in order to better do bioinformatics. I have never found a book that does this as well as Natural Obsessions, although I have a built-in bias - I was an undergraduate at MIT and a denizen of the Sharp lab on the fifth floor of the Cancer Center, next to the Weinberg lab, just shortly before Natalie arrived to experience ... Read More
Rating: - A book of enormous impact
In my senior year of college, we were assigned Natural Obsessions for the relevance to oncology as a science. I had expected, as with all other undergraduate literature, to find only academic value in the book and approached it as such. But what unfolded instead was a journey through the strange and passionate world of research. It is what made me want to become an oncologist.
The nature of the story is of the many races during the 1980s to identify the genes causative of cancer. The narrative ... Read More
Rating: - In depth, but not a bore.
This book covers all the in-depth information a person could want to know about cancer, while at the same time not burying the reading in technical jargon and biological confusion. I enjoyed reading this book for the information presented, but also the method in which it was conveyed. A must buy for anyone interested in this terrible disease.
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