Michael Waldholz

Curing Cancer

The Story of the Men and Women Unlocking the Secrets of Our Deadliest Illness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reporting from the frontiers of research, an award-winning science writer brings readers the story of the people hunting for the genetic key to cancer, and the dramatic recent breakthroughs that offer hope for an eventual cure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780684848020
• ISBN-10: 0684848023
• Artikelnr.: 21001837

Autorenporträt

Michael Waldholz is a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He is the coauthor, with Jerry Bishop, of Genome, a book based on their prizewinning Wall Street Journal series on the hunt for genes. Waldholz lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
1: A Mystery Solved
2: Science Fiction
3: "Welcome to Chromosome 17"
4: Family 15
5: Trick or Treat
6: The Game
7: Cancer Families
8: Gold Mine
9: Guardian of the Genome
10: Ishmael's Tale
11: Clone by Phone
12: The Mother of All Tumor Suppressors
13: The Roller Coaster
14: Ras
15: First, Do No Harm
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits