The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalised Medicine

In this title, the former head of the Human Genome Project reveals how you can join the personalised medicine revolution. We are in the midst of a medical revolution: in just a few years, we will be able to have our complete DNA sequenced at an affordable cost. Analysing the content of our genomes w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francis S Collins
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Profile 2010
Subjects:
Gene therapy > Popular works. Medical genetics > Popular works. Molecular evolution > Popular works
Table of Contents:
  • The future has already happened
  • When genes go wrong, it gets personal
  • Is it time to learn your own secrets?
  • Getting personal with the big C
  • What's race got to do with it?
  • Genes and germs
  • Genes and the brain
  • Genes and aging
  • The right drug at the right dose for the right person
  • A vision for the future.

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