| | Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene |  | Author: Natalie Angier
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Category: Book
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Pages: 394
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 0395453704
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.994042
EAN: 9780395453704
ASIN: 0395453704
Publication Date: June 1988
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Can't wait to buy the sequel... January 28, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ms. Angier has responded brilliantly to the criticism of Mike Wigler (one of the scientists featured in the book) and refrained from writing "a textbook". She has instead taken us into the world of hardcore biomedical research to see the people behind the scenes as they race to unlock the secrets of nature. Focusing on the events and people in the Weinberg lab at MIT during the early days of the discovery of cellular oncogenes, the book leads us to share with them the excitement of discovery as well as the pain of defeat, for mother nature is often a rather cagey opponent. This book is an invaluable tool to budding biomedical scientists in appreciating the lives and work of their predecessors, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's ever been bored by their biology textbooks.
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