DNA [videorecording] / a Windfall Films production for Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Channel Four ; produced by Thomas Alkin ; directed by Carlo Massarella.
DNA (Television program) Secret of life. Playing God. Human race. Pandora's box.
Notes:
Title of book is "DNA : the secret of life" by James D. Watson ; published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Videodisc release of the PBS television series. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Narrator: Jeff Goldblum.
Contents:
v. 1. The secret of life -- v. 2. Playing God -- v. 3. The human race -- v. 4. Curing cancer -- v. 5. Pandora's box.
Summary:
Tells the story of how researchers have developed radically new ways to treat cancer by tracing it back to its origins: its DNA. Focuses on two pioneering efforts: the race between Dr. Mary Claire King and Dr. Mark Skolnick, founder of Myriad Genetics to isolate the gene linked to breast cancer, and Dr. Brian Druker's work that eventually led to an anti-cancer drug which cures Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Also looks at the work of David Botstein in discovering gene markers and Per Lonning, Botstein and partner Pat Brown who developed a micro-array technique to reveal differences between seemingly identical cancers.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)54927283
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.