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The new healers : the promise and problems of molecular medicine in the twenty-first century /
Science and medicine have provided us with clues to the treatment of a few genetic diseases, although by their very nature they have never been considered curable. But, as William R. Clark shows, that is about to change through one of the most profound revolutions in modern medicine: gene therapy, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999, ©1997.
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| Edición: | 1st pbk. ed. 1999. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Science and medicine have provided us with clues to the treatment of a few genetic diseases, although by their very nature they have never been considered curable. But, as William R. Clark shows, that is about to change through one of the most profound revolutions in modern medicine: gene therapy, a branch of the new field of molecular medicine. Clark takes us to the laboratories which have been able to isolate human genes, to make billions of copies of them, and to reintroduce healthy genes into unfortunate individuals who have inherited damaged or functionless genes. The New Healers outlines. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199774500 0199774501 1280535229 9781280535222 |