The world was agog when scientists made the astounding announcement that they had successfully sequenced the human genome. Few contributed so directly to this feat as John Sulston. This is his personal account of one of the largest international scientific operations ever undertaken. It was a momentous occasion when British scientist, John Sulston embarked on the greatest scien...(展开全部)

John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was pulled off in record time by an extraordinary collaboration of scientists. Despite innumerable setbacks and challenges from outside competitors the ultimate success of the project can...(展开全部)

A leading bioethicist offers critical insights into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing. Designer babies, once found only in science fiction, have become a reality. We are entering a new era of human evolution with the advent of a technology called CRISPR, which allows scientists to modify our genes. Although CRISPR shows great promise fo...(展开全部)

We live in a world increasingly governed by technology―but to what end? Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by cit...(展开全部)

We live in a world increasingly governed by technology―but to what end? Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by cit...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 《科学》期刊记者，《自然》期刊和《财富》杂志供稿作家，并为《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等撰写生物学和生物医学专栏。在华盛顿负责生物医学报道近二十年。瓦德曼毕业于斯坦福大学人类生物学专业；于英属哥伦比亚大学医学院学习医学，并以罗兹奖学金从牛津大学国王学院获得医学学位；还拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻学院硕士学位。

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Swede...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 《科学》期刊记者，《自然》期刊和《财富》杂志供稿作家，并为《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等撰写生物学和生物医学专栏。在华盛顿负责生物医学报道近二十年。瓦德曼毕业于斯坦福大学人类生物学专业；于英属哥伦比亚大学医学院学习医学，并以罗兹奖学金从牛津大学国王学院获得医学学位；还拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻学院硕士学位。

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Swede...(展开全部)

A renowned psychologist unravels the universal from the individual in human development to answer the question: what are we born with and what do we learn? In 1984, Basic published Harvard developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan's The Nature of the Child, a book that challenged many of psychology's most deeply held assumptions about human development-arguing, for example, that ...(展开全部)