One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins

by Robert A. Weinberg

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Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The amount of information gathered in the past twenty years about the origins of the disease is without equal in the history of biomedical research. In this book one of America¿s most eminent scientists explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise, and more importantly, how they spread. Robert Weinberg explains how normal genes control the conventional growth of the cell, how, in their mutated form, they enable cancers to arise, and why these genes have such life-and-death power over us. Drawing from information that simply was not available until recently, One Renegade Cell explains this insidious disease as no other book as ever been able to do.… (more)

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A könyv hasznos áttekintés erről a bonyolult témáról. Sokkal alaposabban ismerem a témát, mint korábban, ugyanakkor a valódi tudáshoz még egyszer el kellene olvasni. Ennek lehet oka a téma összetettsége, az én nem teljes odafigyelésem vagy a szerző nem teljesen jól felépített gondolatmenete, illetve ezek keveréke.

Egyszerre előny és hátrány, hogy a szerző egyben elismert kutatója is a területnek. Amint a saját szakterületéhez ér, szenvedélyesebben érvel és az ellentábort eléggé lekezeli.

Az egész könyvben egyetlen ábra van, az is a DNS másolásról már unalomig ismételt szétváló spirál. Amikor egyfolytában a sejtekben zajló dinamikus folyamatokról van szó, akkor bizony sokkal többre lenne szükség.

A könyv eredetije 1998-as, azóta elég sokminden történt az emberi gének kutatása területén. Az akkor még jövőre többször is utal a szerző, nagy reményekkel említi a Human Genom Projektet.

Az eddigiek alapján tehát valószínűleg egy újabb, magyarázó ábrákkal jobban fölszerelt könyvet kellene elolvasni. (

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Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The amount of information gathered in the past twenty years about the origins of the disease is without equal in the history of biomedical research. In this book one of America¿s most eminent scientists explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise, and more importantly, how they spread. Robert Weinberg explains how normal genes control the conventional growth of the cell, how, in their mutated form, they enable cancers to arise, and why these genes have such life-and-death power over us. Drawing from information that simply was not available until recently, One Renegade Cell explains this insidious disease as no other book as ever been able to do.

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