The Life of a Virus – Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model 1930–1965 (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Hardcover

Creager, Angela N H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226120252 ISBN 13: 9780226120256

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Synopsis

In this text, Angela N.H. Creager introduces the reader to the plant virus that taught much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.

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About the Author

Angela N. H. Creager is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Program in the History of Sciences at Princeton University.

From the Inside Flap

Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley's lab, Angela N. H. Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have been models in genetics and cancer research. She examines how the experimental techniques and instruments Stanley and his colleagues developed for studying TMV were generalized, not just to other labs working on TMV, but also to research on other diseases such as poliomyelitis and influenza and to studies of genes and cell organelles. In "The Life of a Virus," Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that has also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0226120252
• ISBN 13: 9780226120256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352