by Walter Isaacson (2021)
Walter Isaacson chronicles the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and the discovery of CRISPR gene editing, a tool with the power to cure devastating genetic diseases or engineer human evolution.
Brenda Maddox
The poignant and revelatory biography of the brilliant crystallographer whose Photograph 51 was crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, correcting decades of historical erasure.
Carl-Fredrik Mandenius, Nigel J Titchener-Hooker
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Robert Verpoorte, A. W. Alfermann
Plant secondary metabolism is an economically important source of fine chemicals, such as drugs, insecticides, dyes, flavours, and fragrances. Moreover, important traits of plants such as taste, flavour, smell, colour, or resistance against pests and diseases are also related to secondary metabolites. The genetic modification of plants is feasible nowadays. What does the possibility of engineering plant secondary metabolite pathways mean? In this book, firstly a general introduction is given on plant secondary metabolism, followed by an overview of the possible approaches that could be used to alter secondary metabolite pathways. In a series of chapters from various authorities in the field, an overview is given of the state of the art for important groups of secondary metabolites. No books have been published on this topic so far. This book will thus be a unique source of information for all those involved with plants as chemical factories of fine chemicals and those involved with the quality of food and ornamental plants. It will be useful in teaching graduate courses in the field of metabolic engineering in plants.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the "gene," the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information. Siddhartha Mukherjee weaves science, social history, and personal narrative into an epic medical chronicle.