Signs of life : the language and meanings of DNA
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Signs of life : the language and meanings of DNA
（Penguin science）
Penguin, 1995
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First published in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994
First published in U.K. by Viking, 1994
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
It's barely 40 years ago that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the code of law that governs inheritance, the base-pairing rules of DNA. Since then, there has been an explosion of knowledge: scientists can now manipulate DNA to correct a damaged cell, nurture an endangered embryo, arrest degenerative diseases, detect foetal chromosome abnormalities and even secure convictions by genetic fingerprinting. The underlying potential of such a powerful knowledge creates grounds for an explosive ethical and legal debate.
Table of Contents
- Invisible cities and crystalline books
- chromosomes and canons
- sentences, sculptures and the ambiguities of translation
- the molecular word processor
- texts, contexts and the transgenic stage
- between physics and history - the new paradigm of biology.
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