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Sto caricando le informazioni... Biocode: The New Age of Genomics (originale 2015; edizione 2016)di Dawn Field (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The first 2/3 of the book deserve 5 stars. Simple language explaining various complicated concepts, interesting facts, well written. And then like authors ran out of steam, or the rest was added as afterthought. It became boring, trivial and uninteresting. ( ) A remarkable book, adequately accessible for a non scientist, describing the history and boundless future arising from the sequencing of the human genome. The potential is hard to exaggerate and another author, Matt Ridley, has posited that it will "set in motion a scientific revolution as profound as the discovery that the earth revolves round the sun" The benefits are already being felt in the medical field and will surely accelerate, For me, one of the most important things I learnt was about the human microbiome; the importance of all the microbial cells that live on an in the human body. From reading this book, I am confident that, within the lifetime of my grandchildren, future doctor visits will involve reference to a patient's personal genome, in diagnosis and deciding treatment. As someone who has a very strong interest in genetic genealogy, I wanted to find a readable book that gave me a larger overview of the genomics field. This work by Field and Davies was an excellent, highly accessible book. It offered insights into how the field of genomics is being used in humans, animals, and even the environment. Those of us familiar with genetic genealogy will recognize mentions of the work of 23andMe, National Geographic's Genographic Project, and Family Tree DNA. The book also reports on a few other projects which primarily serve non-English speaking population groups. The authors also ventured into speculation of what may result in the future as a result of genomics research, even venturing to guess that there might be an online dating service based on matching compatible genomes. While the book may use a little more jargon than a person with absolutely no background in genetics might have, it was highly readable for those of us with a "hobbyist knowledge." It is well-researched, citing a number of genetics studies. This review is based on an advance readers copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley for review purposes. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"The living world runs on genomic software-- what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode'- -the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery: the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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