The Genetic Jigsaw: The Story of the New Genetics

by Robin McKie

What is genetic disease? Can it be cured? How does it occur? How can the risks be reduced? What promises does the future hold? In this book, Robin McKie guides the reader through one of the most complex and exciting subjects of current research, the study of genetically transmitted diseases. McKie investigates the dramatic advances in diagnosis and gene therapy, gene splicing and cloning, the design of special drugs, and DNA fingerprinting, and discusses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019212272X
• ISBN13: 9780192122728
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages