Ebook: The Art and Politics of Science
Author: Varmus Harold
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- Year: 2010
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
In this work a Nobel prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions and veteran of the American science policy wars reflects on his career.;Origins and beginnings -- From literature to medicine to science -- The first taste of scientific success -- Retroviruses and their replication cycle -- The RSV oncogene and its progenitor -- How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer -- Targeted therapies for human cancers -- Partnerships in science -- The road to Building One -- Being NIH director -- Priority setting -- Bad times and good times as NIH director -- Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming -- Global science and global health -- Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age -- A life in science -- Notes -- Glossary.
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