The Gene

  • The Gene: Its Structure, Function, and Evolution
    By Lawrence S. Dillon

    Neuman - Silberberg , F. S. , Schejter , E. , Hoffmann , F. M. , and Shilo , B. Z. 1984. The Drosophila ras oncogenes ... Pachl , C. , Schubach , W. , Eisenman , R. , and Linial , M. 1983. Expression of c - myc - RNA in bursal lymphoma ...

  • The Gene: A Historical Perspective
    By Ted Everson

    The Howard Hughes Medical Institute ( HHMI ) also played a significant role in the early years of the HGP . The HHMI was founded by the enigmatic American industrialist Howard Hughes Jr. ( 1905-1976 ) .

  • The Gene: An Intimate History
    By Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real ...

  • The Gene: An Intimate History
    By Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Prologue: Families -- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935 -- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970 -- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001 -- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005 -- Through the ...

  • The Gene: An Intimate History
    By Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Prologue: Families -- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935 -- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970 -- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001 -- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005 -- Through the ...

  • The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics
    By Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Staffan Müller-Wille

    Though the gene has long been the central organizing theme of biology, both conceptually and as an object of study, Rheinberger and Müller-Wille conclude that we have never even had a universally accepted, stable definition of it.