Junk DNA
A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
Published on 14. April 2015
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-231-17084-0 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of The Epigenetics Revolution ("A book that would have had Darwin swooning."--Guardian) comes a lucid and engaging report from the cutting edge of genomic biology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
<B>61 b&w illustrations</B>
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
618 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-17084-0 (9780231170840)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Nessa Carey is a visiting professor at Imperial College, London. She earned her Ph.D. in virology from the University of Edinburgh. Having worked in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries for more than a decade, she maintains strong relationships with leading researchers in Europe and across the United States, at such institutions as the Harvard Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania, the Wistar Institute, the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Southern California. Carey is also the author of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance.
Content
AcknowledgmentsNotes on NomenclatureAn Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter1. Why Dark Matter Matters2. When Dark Matter Turns Very Dark Indeed3. Where Did All the Genes Go?4. Outstaying an Invitation5. Everything Shrinks When We Get Old6. Two Is the Perfect Number7. Painting with Junk8. Playing the Long Game9. Adding Colour to the Dark Matter10. Why Parents Love Junk11. Junk with a Mission12. Switching It On, Turning It Up13. No Man's Land14. Project ENCODE Big Science Comes to Junk DNA15. Headless Queens, Strange Cats, and Portly Mice16. Lost in Untranslation17. Why LEGO Is Better Than Airfix18. Mini Can Be Mighty19. The Drugs Do Work (Sometimes)20. Some Light in the DarknessNotesAppendix: Human Diseases in Which Junk DNA Has Been ImplicatedIndex