Life Illuminated: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor, Volume 2 (1972-1994)

Witkowski, Jan (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0879698047 / ISBN 13: 9780879698041

Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008

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1st printing. Crisp and unmarked, F/NF. Full cloth binding. 242pp. Disc in unopened pouch in back. Jacket very slightly rubbed Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Illuminated: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor, Volume 2 (1972-1994)
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879698047
• ISBN 13: 9780879698041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book is the second volume of important scientific discoveries made at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The first volume covered the period from 1903 to 1969. The second book covers the succeeding twenty years an era of quickening pace in molecular and cellular biology. Of the 1500 publications published from the Laboratory in this period, 30 are featured in this volume because they opened a new scientific area; marked an important milestone; or brought a field to intellectual closure. Each paper is presented with a brief commentary, most written by one of its authors. Contents: Section 1. CELL BIOLOGY; Section 2. TUMOR VIRUSES; Section 3. DNA; Section 4. ONCOGENES; Section 5. MAPPING. Note from the Publisher: You may be interested in this related title: Illuminating Life: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor, Volume 1 (1903 to 1969).

Product Description

Life Illuminated: 1972-1994 v. 2 This book is the second volume of an intellectual history of the science done at CSHL (the first volume, Illuminating Life, showed that genetics became the dominant theme of research at CSH by as early as 1904). Full description