Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Editorial Operations Branch
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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NIH Almanac, 1995/1996
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Almanac 1995/1996
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Languages : en
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presents the online version of the 1995/1996 "NIH Almanac." The almanac is published annually and contains facts about the NIH, the biomedical research agency of the federal government.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presents the online version of the 1995/1996 "NIH Almanac." The almanac is published annually and contains facts about the NIH, the biomedical research agency of the federal government.
NIH Almanac
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Public Information
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Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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NIH Almanac
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Public Information
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Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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N.I.H. Almanac
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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NIH Almanac, 1993, 1994
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Public Information
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Who Wrote the Book of Life?
Author: Lily E. Kay
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804734172
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the author situates work on the genetic code (1953-70) within the history of life science, the rise of communication technosciences (cybernetics, information theory, and computers), the intersection of molecular biology with cryptanalysis and linguistics, and the social history of postwar Europe and the United States. Kay draws out the historical specificity in the process by which the central biological problem of DNA-based protein synthesis came to be metaphorically represented as an information code and a writing technologyand consequently as a book of life. This molecular writing and reading is part of the cultural production of the Nuclear Age, its power amplified by the centuries-old theistic resonance of the book of life metaphor. Yet, as the author points out, these are just metaphors: analogies, not ontologies. Necessary and productive as they have been, they have their epistemological limitations. Deploying analyses of language, cryptology, and information theory, the author persuasively argues that, technically speaking, the genetic code is not a code, DNA is not a language, and the genome is not an information system (objections voiced by experts as early as the 1950s). Thus her historical reconstruction and analyses also serve as a critique of the new genomic biopower. Genomic textuality has become a fact of life, a metaphor literalized, she claims, as human genome projects promise new levels of control over life through the meta-level of information: control of the word (the DNA sequences) and its editing and rewriting. But the author shows how the humbling limits of these scriptural metaphors also pose a challenge to the textual and material mastery of the genomic book of life.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804734172
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the author situates work on the genetic code (1953-70) within the history of life science, the rise of communication technosciences (cybernetics, information theory, and computers), the intersection of molecular biology with cryptanalysis and linguistics, and the social history of postwar Europe and the United States. Kay draws out the historical specificity in the process by which the central biological problem of DNA-based protein synthesis came to be metaphorically represented as an information code and a writing technologyand consequently as a book of life. This molecular writing and reading is part of the cultural production of the Nuclear Age, its power amplified by the centuries-old theistic resonance of the book of life metaphor. Yet, as the author points out, these are just metaphors: analogies, not ontologies. Necessary and productive as they have been, they have their epistemological limitations. Deploying analyses of language, cryptology, and information theory, the author persuasively argues that, technically speaking, the genetic code is not a code, DNA is not a language, and the genome is not an information system (objections voiced by experts as early as the 1950s). Thus her historical reconstruction and analyses also serve as a critique of the new genomic biopower. Genomic textuality has become a fact of life, a metaphor literalized, she claims, as human genome projects promise new levels of control over life through the meta-level of information: control of the word (the DNA sequences) and its editing and rewriting. But the author shows how the humbling limits of these scriptural metaphors also pose a challenge to the textual and material mastery of the genomic book of life.
The National Institutes of Health Almanac
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Information
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Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Almanac
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Languages : en
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presents the online version of the "NIH Almanac." The almanac is published annually and contains facts about the NIH, the biomedical research agency of the federal government.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presents the online version of the "NIH Almanac." The almanac is published annually and contains facts about the NIH, the biomedical research agency of the federal government.
NIH Almanac, 1999
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Editorial Operations Branch
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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