The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalised Medicine (Record no. 295557)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781846683534
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 616.042 COL-L
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Francis S Collins
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalised Medicine
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Profile
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The future has already happened -- When genes go wrong, it gets personal -- Is it time to learn your own secrets? -- Getting personal with the big C -- What's race got to do with it? -- Genes and germs -- Genes and the brain -- Genes and aging -- The right drug at the right dose for the right person -- A vision for the future.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In this title, the former head of the Human Genome Project reveals how you can join the personalised medicine revolution. We are in the midst of a medical revolution: in just a few years, we will be able to have our complete DNA sequenced at an affordable cost. Analysing the content of our genomes will allow a powerful estimate of our future risks of illness - from cystic fibrosis and Huntington\\\'s disease, to cancer and diabetes - which will help us devise our own personalised blueprint of preventive medicine. This will have enormous implications on everything from our day-to-day choices like diet and exercise, to childbearing and health insurance - and it may even challenge what we thought we knew about our ethnic histories. Combining cutting-edge scientific research with practical advice, Francis Collins examines this remarkable phenomenon, which will transform healthcare worldwide. We now know that the language spoken by our DNA is the language of life itself, and in this important book Collins shows how reading that language will help save lives.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Gene therapy -- Popular works. Medical genetics -- Popular works. Molecular evolution -- Popular works
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015 1 616.042 COL-L DCB2383 04/02/2019 04/02/2019 19/07/2019 Book