Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health - Nicholas Wade - Books - Simon & Schuster - 9780743223188 - September 17, 2002
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Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

Nicholas Wade

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Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the genetic program that evolution has written for the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand, and researchers hope to uncover the genetic roots of illness and develop new therapies for most major diseases. Here, New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade describes the race to decode the genome and how the new knowledge will transform medicine. Soon, physicians will be able to screen people's genes for all the diseases to which they may be vulnerable. With the emerging art of regenerative medicine, physicians will use stem cells and genomic techniques to replace failing tissues and organs with new ones. Many drugs will be prescribed based on DNA information that will identify which pharmaceuticals are best for each patient. Medicine will be customized for a patient's genetic makeup, providing treatments based on a precise understanding of the mechanism of disease itself. It may even be possible to extend the human life span by manipulating the genes that control it.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 17, 2002
ISBN13 9780743223188
Publishers Simon & Schuster
Pages 208
Dimensions 138 × 14 × 204 mm   ·   199 g
Language English  

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