1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136754503321

Titolo

Grand celebration . Volume 1 : 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project / / John Burn, James R. Lupski, Karen E. Nelson and Pabulo H. Rampelotto (Eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Basel, Switzerland] : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9783038421702

9783038421245

3038421243

Edizione

[Edition 2016]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour); digital file(s)

Disciplina

599.935

611.0181663

Soggetti

Human gene mapping

Human genetics - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is a reprint of the special issue that appeared in the online open access journal Genes (ISSN 2073-4425) in 2014" -- title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

"In 1990, scientists began working together on one of the largest biological research projects ever proposed. The project proposed to sequence the three billion nucleotides in the human genome. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and was completed in April 2003, at a cost of approximately three billion dollars. It was a major scientific achievement that forever changed the understanding of our own nature. The sequencing of the human genome was in many ways a triumph for technology as much as it was for science. From the Human Genome Project, powerful technologies have been developed (e.g., microarrays and next generation sequencing) and new branches of science have emerged (e.g., functional genomics and pharmacogenomics), paving new ways for advancing genomic research



and medical applications of genomics in the 21st century. The investigations have provided new tests and drug targets, as well as insights into the basis of human development and diagnosis/treatment of cancer and several mysterious humans diseases. This genomic revolution is prompting a new era in medicine, which brings both challenges and opportunities. Parallel to the promising advances over the last decade, the study of the human genome has also revealed how complicated human biology is, and how much remains to be understood. The legacy of the understanding of our genome has just begun. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the essential completion of the Human Genome Project, in April 2013 Genes launched this Special Issue, which highlights the recent scientific breakthroughs in human genomics, with a collection of papers written by authors who are leading experts in the field." -- Preface, page xi.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785499203321

Autore

Mehlman Jeffrey

Titolo

Adventures in the French Trade : Fragments Toward a Life / / Jeffrey Mehlman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2010

ISBN

0-8047-7507-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Cultural Memory in the Present

Disciplina

944.0072/02

Soggetti

French studies specialists - United States

Critics - United States

Litterateurs - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Content -- Contents Preface -- 1. Beginning and End -- 2. Initiation: Bécheron -- 3. New York/Angoulême -- 4. Boston/Vichy -- 5. Hugo 2000: Fiction -- 6. Kandahar 2001: Fact -- teachers -- 7. Chiasmus -- 8. Derrida -- 9. Bellow in Boston -- 10. Antinomian Steiner -- 11. A Professor Retires -- 12. Genet in New



Haven: Repercussions and Resonances -- 13. Mother Harvard -- 14. The Heart of the Matter: A Graduation Address -- 15. Louis Wolfson -- 16. Walter Benjamin -- 17. Afrancesado: Coda in Buenos Aires -- Acknowledgments -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache—his injured and occasionally injurious love—for France and the French. The reader will encounter masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade depicts an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. This provocative book should be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself.