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The art and politics of science / Harold Varmus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 315 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393061284
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.92 VAR 22
LOC classification:
  • R154.V47 .A3 2009
NLM classification:
  • WZ 100
Contents:
Origins and beginnings -- From literature to medicine to science -- The first taste of scientific success -- Retroviruses and their replication cycle -- The RSV oncogene and its progenitor -- How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer -- Targeted therapies for human cancers -- Partnerships in science -- The road to Building One -- Being NIH director -- Priority setting -- Bad times and good times as NIH director -- Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming -- Global science and global health -- Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-290) and index.

Origins and beginnings -- From literature to medicine to science -- The first taste of scientific success -- Retroviruses and their replication cycle -- The RSV oncogene and its progenitor -- How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer -- Targeted therapies for human cancers -- Partnerships in science -- The road to Building One -- Being NIH director -- Priority setting -- Bad times and good times as NIH director -- Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming -- Global science and global health -- Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age.

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