J. Craig Venter, David Ewing Duncan

Gebundenes Buch

Microlands

The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)

Beschreibung

A celebrated genome scientist sails around the world, collecting tens of millions of marine microbes and revolutionising our understanding of the microbiome that sustains us.

Autor

J. Craig Venter is founder, Chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a nonprofit research organization. He is cofounder of the biotechnology companies Celera, Synthetic Genomics, and Human Longevity. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous public honors and scientific awards, including the U.S. National Medal of Science. David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning science journalist. A contributor to Wired, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, The Atlantic, and National Geographic and the bestselling author of eleven books published in twenty-one languages, he was founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Erling Norrby, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Virology at the Karolinska Institute and served six years as Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781472144171
• ISBN-10: 1472144171
• Artikelnr.: 60587436