Yount, Lisa.

Modern genetics : engineering life / Lisa Yount. - New York, NY : Chelsea House, c2006. - xx, 204 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. - Milestones in discovery and invention .

Rev. ed. of: Genetics and genetic engineering, c1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-196) and index.

The code of life: Francis Crick, James Watson, and the structure of DNA -- Gene sandwiches to go: Herbert Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen, and the birth of genetic engineering -- The killers inside: Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus, and genes that cause cancer -- New genes for old: French Anderson and gene therapy -- Death in the family: Nancy Wexler and genes for inherited diseases -- The life-forever worm: Cynthia Kenyon and the genetics of aging -- Hello, Dolly: Ian Wilmut and cloning -- Out of one, many: James Thomson and embryonic stem cells -- The rice that saves eyes: Ingo Potrykus and golden rice -- The genome race: Francis Collins, Craig Venter, and sequencing the human genome -- Chronology -- Glossary.

Profiles geneticists and highlights discoveries they have made; includes Gregor Mendel and the laws of inheritance, James Watson and the structure of DNA, and Stanley Cohen and genetic engineering.

ISBN: 0816057443 9780816057443

LCCN: 2005018152

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Genetics--History.
Genetic engineering--History.

LC Class. No.: QH437.5 / .Y68 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 576.5/09